Word: knocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Valley of Humiliation. Since he left Russia as a twelve-year-old, Morris Cohen has taken and given many a hard knock. After crowding eight years of public school into three, he cleaned a poolroom to work his way through City College. A Scottish Fabian, Thomas Davidson, woke Cohen to an interest in philosophy; as a scholarship student at Harvard, where he roomed with Felix Frankfurter, he became a protěgé of William James. Then came what Cohen refers to as "dark and weary years ... in the valley of humiliation." As a poorly paid mathematics teacher at City...
...stunt might work. Even pre-atom explosives can toss fragments fast enough (1½ miles a second) to free them from the moon's puny pull. Some scientists believe that meteors continually knock chips from the moon's jagged mountains; the chips then head for the center of the earth and fall near the equator as fused, glassy blobs called "tektites...
Some 5% of infants with retrolental fibroplasia also suffer from a complication - congenital glaucoma (hardening of the eyeball). Eyeman Terry says that pupil-contracting miotics (e.g., morphine, nico tine), if administered soon enough after birth, would knock the percentage down to 1. Other early babies are born with lento-cornea (adhesion of the lens to the cornea). A simple operation, if performed soon enough, can save their sight...
Swiftest 100 yards ever swum by man: 49.4 seconds, by Yale's knock-kneed, rusty-haired freestyler, Alan Ford (now an ensign...
...Elis, LeBartsity will crush the Faberites, no need to be scared O'Leary of that Yale team, we Foster no pessimism here. These pusillanimous petrels who say that the Eli-Scanelliminate our team. Overlock the facts. 'Allen all,' they say "They'll probably put us through the Miller knock us higher than the Miellke Way. We've been playing in Fritts and starts all season.' 'GOdell,' I tell them, 'I still have Hoopes.'" He started to Walkerway...