Word: knock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...himself a worthy rival of Yale's Moe Jubitz and Dartmouth's Hal Wonson by his six-hit performance in the Columbia tussle and his four-hit masterpiece in whitewashing Princeton. In his last two games, the big pitcher has passed three men, and allowed only one extra base knock...
Justice Roberts, having his biggest day in court since he switched over to the liberal bloc in 1937, read yet another opinion of No. 1 significance. Three years ago it fell to him to knock out the New Deal's first AAA, partly on the ground that the U. S. Government cannot constitutionally control the production of farms. Ruling last week on the 1938 Agricultural Adjustment Act, Owen Roberts held for a majority of six that its provisions authorizing Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace to limit the amount of tobacco which any grower may sell do not limit production...
...prizefighter, willing to impress the world with his strength, does not knock down a child, but challenges another prize-fighter...
...match was the most momentous ever: the recently organized Marbles Control Board hopes to send this year's championship six across the water to challenge a U. S. team. Gravely each man in turn studied the positions of the marbles in the circle, gravely knuckled down, tried to knock his opponents' marbles off the bed with an accurate flick of his "tolly" (shooter...
Dodge City's première was the most notable thing about it. The picture itself is a good, noisy Technicolor, flag-waving Western, enlivened by Ann Sheridan, Olivia de Havilland, Errol Flynn and a knock-down drag-out saloon fight. So continual is the random gunfire that cinemaddicts might guess that the place took its name from the necessary behavior of the inhabitants...