Word: knocked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...price of crude oil. Initiated by small independents in the non-prorated States of Louisiana and Arkansas, the cuts were soon adopted by everyone, dropping the price from $1.22 to about $1.02, the first general cut since NRA. Thus brought into the open was a paradox which may knock the complex proration system galley-west: an efficient method of controlling production has been worked out, but since the Federal antitrust suit against the oil industry at Madison, Wis. last year, there has been no way of stabilizing the price or the quantity of refined petroleum...
...Tuesday afternoon. The varied articles of clothing on the hangers had not the resplendency of new garments, but they did have the proper aristocratic drape and much good, solid wear in them. Sometimes this friend of Vag's would come to his penthouse room and timidly knock on the door and ask in a small voice if Vag had anything for him. Vag seldom did. And he has nothing for him now except a growing respect for this little man who manages to be so dignified about an undignified business. His store is bare now, and all the stuff...
...farm in Pall Mall, Tenn., on the 20th anniversary of his Wartime feat (killing 20 German soldiers and capturing 132 singlehanded), Sergeant Alvin Cullom York offered a plan for peace: "I believe if we want to stop Hitler we must knock him off the block...
Work & Money. Hard work, however, is the general rule at Cavendish, although the staffers sometimes knock off early in summer to play cricket. The staff numbers some 60 researchers, of whom per-haps ten leave every year for other posts or retirement. These are replaced by bright newcomers, half from Cambridge, half from outside. About 200 undergraduates studying physics also work at Cavendish. Its lecture halls are antiquated and barnlike, its benches are uncomfortable. All the buildings are old and ramshackle, except the Mond Laboratory for low-temperature research, for which Sir Robert Ludwig Mond, gas & oil tycoon and amateur...
Lieut.-Colonel Stewart S. Giffin (West Point, '13), Coast Artillery Corps, U. S. A., stood trial before a general courtmartial. On and behind a pine table were twelve sabres, twelve senior officers. The court had to consider charges that Colonel Giffin: 1) did "maliciously knock the hat off the head of one Joseph Currao [a trucker], thereby precipitating a drunken brawl ... to the scandal and disgrace of the military service"; 2) did visit a residence at Goshen, N. Y., and, being refused admittance, "did then and there willfully create a shameful disturbance ... by trespassing ... in his stocking feet...