Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pound bout resulted in the only knock-out of the tournament. G. E. W. Davis 1G.B. won the title by putting C. G. Page 1L. out after a minute and a half of the first round...
...Nicholas medal of the New York Section of the American Chemical Society was awarded to Thomas Midgley, of the General Motors Research Corporation, Dayton, Ohio, for his work in reducing the detonation or " knock" in automobile engines. The inventor is 32 years old, the youngest recipient of the medal, which was established in 1903 for achievements in chemistry...
...WORLD IN FALSEFACE - George Jean Nathan - Knopf. Mr. Nathan is a conscientious professional iconoclast. He continues to knock down his favorite idols and to scatter the ruins. His victims range from the more eminent of modern dramatists to the more generally accepted of modern doctrines. His endorsements are few. They include Hauptmann, Flo Ziegfeld, Eugene O'Neill, the younger Guitry, George M. Cohan...
...they undoubtedly did need all they possessed. So has every critic of similar stamp who has made his voice heard since that time, but in the present year of the Republic the shoe is on the other foot. Whereas before it has been dangerous in the extreme to knock the existing order the challenge now is for men to defend it. It is always easiest to go with the crowd--the crowd always does--and while the general public of other times used to cherish the vague idea that everything was all right it now cries with a morbid glee...
Evidently these two young and spirited gentlemen were devoted to a form of idol worship, but the tribute which they laid at the altar of love is nothing compared to the tributes which present followers of the sport lay before all manner of altars, including that of the Knock-out Punch, Good Looks, the Dome-run Swat, and of multifarious others. For years Valentine's idle heroine worship has been the only religion of a young "louyere and a lusty bachelor", but now the "irrepresible vitality of youth" does not let him rest content until he has gone far afield...