Word: knocked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...coming Ramblers from Dudley should knock off the Eliot House team tomorrow, about which little is known. The Elephants boast a "mystery back" but he will have to be plenty good to get through the Dudley line, bolstered by last year's all-House center, Dick Loomis, who transferred from Winthrop...
Friends and associates joined him. They were certain that war would knock business for a loop. Hitler was in another country. Practical-minded Chicagoans felt that under certain arms-length circumstances they might even tolerate Hitler, as they had tolerated Capone. As the General put it, they did not think the U.S. should "interfere in the quarrels of Europe and Asia, old, sick and overpopulated continents with ancient rivalries that cannot be healed...
...marriage to Princess Fawziya, sister of Egypt's King Farouk, was celebrated by a fabulous wedding in 1939, which lasted five weeks, began in Cairo and ended in Teheran. During it a knock-down fight between his father and his bride's mother broke up the celebration. Queen Nazli of Egypt wanted the dowry salted away in the National Bank of Egypt, but Reza would have none of it. In a huff the Queen left the nuptials flat, and Reza had all the triumphal arches in Teheran torn down. The dowry stayed in Iran...
This time the challenger for Joe Louis' crown is a student of yoga, 26-year-old Lou Nova who has boasted that he is a Man of Destiny, that he will knock out the Champion with his "cosmic punch" (straight from the seventh vertebra, center of balance), and the aid of his "dynamic stance," his controlled breathing...
Although Robert McConnell, head of OPM's old conservation section, was passed over for the top job, he was by no means purged. He will continue as head of a new Engineers' Defense Board which will advise Rosenwald. Its first job: to knock unnecessary requirements out of U.S. building codes, thus save on materials going into construction...