Word: knocked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most Jewish men today wait until they have passed 35 and feel secure before marrying, said Rabbi Wolf. Conversely, girls as young as 15 seek husbands. Likewise, older kalles knock at least a dozen years off their age. "If a lady has real love affairs," observed the rabbi, "she never has to go to a marriage broker...
...napping, the Milwaukee Road quickly inaugurated mile-a-minute service between Chicago and Milwaukee (85 mi.), pushed delivery of two streamlined engines for its Chicago-Twin Cities route. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. quietly announced that it would put two Zephyrs on the Twin Cities run within 60 days, knock 30 minutes off the seven and a half hour schedule...
...fire in the Kerns Hotel at Lansing killed off three House Republicans-elect, only one Democrat-elect, leaving him a Democratic House (TIME, Dec. 24). With this setback his job grows harder for he has promised to exempt food from the State's 3% sales tax. That will knock $10,000,000 off the State's revenue and $12,000,000 is what the State has been spending for relief...
...scenes presenting a laquacions English waiter are very amusing, and the songs. "Let's Knock Knees." "Needle in a Raystack." "The Continental," and Cole Porter's now classic "Night and Day" are effective. Miss Rogers' gorgeous lumbs are hidden beneath graceful gowns, which is too bad for Miss Rogers and Miss Rogers' fans. The plot is well, we'll skip the plots if you like plots you're wasting your time...
...there were a course of this type existent in each age, such as the Classical, Elizabethan, and Romantic eras, it would coordinate the work of the undergraduate. This would not knock out work in each division, of course; it would only knit closely together, the divergent knowledge which a man gains from such a study. These courses would be under the guidance of Department professors, for the platform circus which is of definite value to a Freshman, would not present the continuity essential for the advanced student...