“As long as you made it by the time the guy in charge reached your name, you received a notch on the stick used to record your presence.”

“Some erupted material escaped through a notch in the MacKenney cone and formed a small lava flow that bifurcated in the lower part of the photograph.”

“If she can ratchet her performance up a notch or two, there's no reason why she couldn't be one of the four.”