Word: knocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...digging into a complex study called ultrasonics.* Last week, in Audio Engineering, Inventor White described one of his gadgets: a sound-maker no bigger than a milk bottle. The White siren can generate: 1) "silent" sounds powerful enough to set paper afire; 2) audible sounds so loud that they knock strong men (including Mr. White) silly for five minutes...
...uses: killing bacteria; breaking up suspensions of solid particles; precipitating smoke and dust; speeding up chemical reactions. The sound waves can also pull large molecules apart, turning heavy oils into gasoline. Last week, from Britain, came a report that the little waves may soon be used in laundering, to knock dirt from soap-starved British clothes...
...much as one did in 1939." Masons who used to lay 700 to 800 bricks daily are down to 300 to 500. Because they get time-and-a-half or double-time for Saturday and Sunday work, some Chicago building-trades workers like to knock off for two days in midweek and work on weekends. And wages, at an alltime high, are still going up. In Detroit, for example, where carpenters average 110% above prewar-$102.20 weekly with overtime-they are demanding a 42½-an-hour increase...
Before Benny's fight with Richie Mitchell, the referee explained the then-new rule that after scoring a knockdown, a boxer must go to a neutral corner. Benny suddenly registered perplexity. "Let me get,this straight," he said. "As I understand it, every time I knock him down I'm to go to a neutral corner." Mitchell looked nervous. Benny knocked him out in the sixth round...
...contemplating the gaping hole in the argyle sock, where he was about to commit his bare foot, when his reveries were interrupted by a stealthy knock at the door. "It's open," he purred, in the renowned mellow 100 proof tone, as a mufflered figure sidled in, peering in both directions over the upturned label of a secondhand Brooks Brothers overcoat...