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Word: knocking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...marked the third period play as the Crimson carried the attack to the Toronto goal. Time and again the Harvard offensive broke on the stalwart opposing defensive pair. What seemed to be a certain Crimson scoring chance was blasted when Captain Whitehead hurled his stick across the ice to knock the puck away from Tudor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON SEXTET BATTLES TORONTO TO SCORELESS TIE | 1/4/1929 | See Source »

...Came a knock at the door of her suite. She opened it. "Are you going to marry him?" chorused the reporters, trigger-fingers quivering on their pencils. Miss Morrow laughed. "Hold that pose!" chorused the cameramen, shaking powder in their flashlight pans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Infernal Outrage | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

...prize fighters grow old, they become decrepit; young bruisers whom they could once have walloped, beat their battered noses and knock their false teeth out of mouth. Yet, rebels against time, because they love the sound of invisible watchers in the dark or because they know that they will be unable to earn a living in some other profession, they continue to fight, in little arenas and smelly, half filled armories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boxers' Rebellion | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...Cynthiana, Ky., one Homer Reeves, Hooverite, shot & killed one Ferd Lyons, Smithite. In Spencer, West Va., one E. H. Huffman shot one Clyde Moore. In Brooklyn, one Walter McCann, realtor, with a diamond stickpin, diamond ring and $600 in Hoover bets, was fed knock-out drops and virulent poison, robbed and left dead near a speakeasy. In Boston, Miss Gertrude Ryan, secretary to U. S. Representative George Tinkham, told the police that a carful of young Democrats crowded her automobile off the road, maltreated herself and sister, beat her nephew. In Worcester, Mass., a parade of 10,000 Hooverites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Politicules | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

Substitutions: Harvard Canfield for caturan knock for Dorman; Brown Gordon for Smith Burman for Goldberg, Goals Frame Broadbent, Dorman, Rane. referce Smith. Rowdein Time four 32 minute periods...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN SOCCER ELEVEN IS VICTOR OVER BROWN BY 5 TO 0 | 11/8/1928 | See Source »

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