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Word: knock (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Knock on Wood. Some extremely funny Kayedenzas by a brilliant clown, Danny Kaye (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, may 17, 1954 | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

...Knock on Wood. Some extremely funny Kayedenzas by a brilliant clown. Danny Kaye (TIME. April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, may 10, 1954 | 5/10/1954 | See Source »

...have shown the world that man need not be a prisoner of his surroundings, starving in desert lands or drowned by torrential floods. He can change much of the unproductive land to suit his needs- Part of this change is due to the new machinery: the clanking bulldozers that knock down forests, the great draglines that claw house-sized holes at a single scoop, the cranes, jumbos, earth movers, power shovels, trenchers and dozens of other mechanical giants that lay pipelines, tunnel through mountains, and pour concrete for dams with the ease of a man putting down a sidewalk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSTRUCTION: The Earth Mover | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

...Knock on Wood. Some extremely funny Kayedenzas by a brilliant clown, Danny Kaye (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, may 3, 1954 | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

What Author Jarrell has done is to set up a straw woman, a progressive girls' college, and then knock it down, page by page, for 277 rounds.* The result is resolutely highbrow and sometimes highly amusing, even if Author Jarrell devastates his theme and his characters more than he develops them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Talking Clocks | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

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