Word: knocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still somewhat breathless about the possibilities. His shielding system was used, and is still being used, on innumerable airplanes, tanks and other radio-equipped vehicles. After winning his suit against the hard-to-sue Government, Crook thinks it will be easy to knock off airplane manufacturers and other unauthorized users. After that, he will try to prove that many important electrical devices, such as the coaxial cable, grew out of his patent. If he proves these points, the millions (about $5,000,000 from the Government, he figures) will shower down. "A reasonable settlement will have to be made," says...
...Brooklyn, his big bat thumped out two home runs to knock the Dodgers out of first place (6-3). Next night, Musial's 14th-inning triple with two men on base upset the Dodgers again (7-4). In Boston, he connected for home run No. 9 to help beat the Braves, 8-1. Musial's batting average jumped 39 points in one week-to a healthy .297-and the Cardinals were within striking distance of the National League lead...
...King" tells it, in a lively stylistic blend of Baron Munchausen and Dan Turner, Private Eye, the Harvard job was really an accident. He had come to Boston to knock over a Liggett drug store, but after casing the joint he vetoed...
Manteno. Others will have to wait at least a year until the treatments are ready for the market. Meanwhile, the two researchers are back in their laboratories, hoping to prove that their treatments will knock out other epidemic diseases such as cholera and dysentery...
...Siragusa had to knock the roof off his plastics plant to lower the 40-foot press into place on its 6-ft.-thick concrete base. Finally, the hissing, throbbing monster (Dom calls it "Gargantua") was ready for trial. It pressed down on $6.50 worth of preheated blocks of phenol plastic and molded a complete 35-lb. cabinet, the biggest plastic "casting" made...