Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...court properly to consider the constitutional question involved and to ascertain whether a taxpayer's present right to sue at law to recover taxes illegally exacted from him will be taken away by Congress." No Christmas? To have its income from processing taxes cut off would prove a knock-out blow to the Roosevelt farm policy. The packers suing in Chicago alone pay taxes of some $95,000,000 a year. All told, processing collections reached $495,000,000 in fiscal 1935. Under its old contracts with farmers, AAA has to complete its benefit payments regardless of whether processing...
...bones, muscles, tendons. He cited a dozen cases to show what he meant. One of them concerned a Miss T. S. who suffered a severe attack of infantile paralysis when she was 5. When Dr. Truslow saw her eight years later, "she walked with two crutches, right leg decidedly knock-kneed and with a flexion deformity, 20° outward rotation of leg, right foot in equinovarus; moderate scoliosis...
...Truslow operated on her right shin bone, just below the knee, to correct the knock-knee, knee flexion and outward flexion of that...
...names are Eulalia, Emmarell, Vunies, Dulcinea. In Manhattan last week, where Harlem Negroes held church services to pray that he would win, Joe Louis was attended by four special Negro policemen for each of whom he bought a present after the fight. Before the fight, he predicted he would knock out Carnera in the fifth round. Carnera predicted he would win in the sixth. When it was over, Joe Louis gave out a detailed apology for his error: "I missed him in my round so I thought I might as well get him in his." Joe Louis' next fight...
...year-old Dr. Code, inventing Codeball-on-the-Green (on which he holds patents and copyrights) was the natural climax for a lifetime spent trying to improve and rearrange the purposes of other pastimes and occupations. He began by using a golf ball & driver to knock over bowling pins. He once bowled 228 balls in an hour. He won a wager by playing 18 holes of golf in 40 min., 45 sec., after wearing out three caddies, five scorers. He played 154 holes of golf in a day, stopped lest younger members of his club find his example an encouragement...