Word: knocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...South, suh, there's no sech thing as snow, and people knock off nine holes before and after every corn fritter. While the Harvard squad has been swinging ski poles and replacing the turf on sitzmarks, the southern schools have spent the last month practicing on blossoming courses...
...Knock on Any Door (Santana; Columbia) carries an earnest but wobbly torch for a familiar social message. It also carries the imprint of a new independent called Santana Productions, partly owned by Humphrey Bogart. For his first effort as a producer, Bogart chose Willard Motley's bestselling novel, put Director Nicholas Ray to work behind the cameras, then walked around in front of the lens into the leading role...
...social propaganda Knock on Any Door is very nearly a dud. But with the rage, sweat, rhetoric and kinetic screen personality of Lawyer Bogart to pull it together, it becomes in the last few reels a fairly exciting courtroom drama...
Volunteers in each entry will knock on doors, while in Radcliffe the Community Service Committee solicits Annex students. PBH's Law School Committee is setting up four special collection depots...
Something Blue. Ever since he ran the mile for Milwaukee's Pulaski High, Don Gehrmann had preferred to hang back with the pack, then knock off the leader with a terrific sprint in the stretch. But this year Guy Sundt, Wisconsin's track coach, had taught him to run a different kind of race. With supreme confidence, Gehrmann was planning to ignore Slykhuis and Bengtsson. He would run against the clock, not the competition: a fast 58-second first quarter, a 2-minute half, a 3:04 three quarters, and a record-breaking 4:05 finish. The race...