Word: knocked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Equally "special" are low-boiling-point fuels which vaporize easily, facilitate quick starting in winter time (but which do not produce more power), and the knock-reducing fuels. Function of the latter is to eliminate the metallic clanks which old motors make when straining on hills. The puzzling question of what constitutes a knock-reducing fuel was perhaps solved by an announcement last week telling of the work of the co-operative steering committee...
...there?" cried a solemn, monkish voice last week, responding to a thunderous knock on the great door of the crypt beneath Vienna's Church of the Capuchins. "Who is there...
While Francis Scott McBride, chief Anti-Saloon League lobbyist, was declaring that Mr. Drury's testimony was "a knock-out blow to the Wets' pet scheme," Wets talked of inviting Premier Ferguson to Washington to appear before the House Judiciary Committee to refute the statements of his Canadian opponent. Premier Ferguson promptly scotched this proposal as "undesirable," but offered to send all data necessary to prove the success of Ontario's liquor system...
...himself in the lobby of the hotel, left Granada next day. Soon he forced himself to forget. Many years later he had become a popular writer, rich, famed; again he came to Granada on a holiday, put up at the still expensive Hotel Boabdil. One evening came a knock on the door. The same scene was repeated, only this time he himself was the elderly stranger; this time the shock killed...
...fight Maxie Rosenbloom, rated as the best light heavyweight of all. For eight rounds stubby Scozza, a swinger, plunged after dancing Slattery, received a hearty cuffing. In the next four rounds Slattery got tired. In the 13th, a wild spray of punches suddenly erupted from Scozza. He dazed Slattery, knocked him against the ropes, was about to knock him out when the bell rang. Glassy-eyed but courageous, with his last energy forcing his wobbling legs to dance once more, Slattery jabbed and countered in the 15th as he had in the early rounds, won the decision...