Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their third year but usually it is the fourth to sixth before the crop is satisfactory and the tenth before they are in full bearing. Taken care of, the life of a tree should be about 50 years. The flowering season is in April. In November the first frosts knock the nuts to the ground where they are allowed to dry for about a month before they are milled. After the oil is extracted the cake can be used for insecticide and fertilizer...
...With 63 votes* toward the magic number of 770 needed to nominate at the Chicago convention, Governor Roosevelt turned to Georgia's primary this week. Fortnight ago he had knocked out Alfred Emanuel Smith in New Hampshire. Last week he knocked out Governor Murray in North Dakota. This week he confidently expected to knock out Speaker John Nance Garner (for whom a Judge Gus Hill Howard was running by proxy) in Georgia, his "second home," and add 28 more delegates to his growing string...
...knock out the sales tax, it was part of the coalition's strategy to substitute heavier levies elsewhere in the bill. The bill already raised the normal tax on net incomes (after deduction) of $8,000 or more from the present 5% to 6%. The House voted (121-to-81) to boost this levy to 7%. Where the bill upped the maximum surtax from 20% to 40% on over $100,000, the House voted (153-to-87) to invoke again the Wartime scale of surtaxes, boosting the rate beyond the $100,000 mark to a maximum levy...
Most celebrated of McNamara's confreres is Franco Georgetti, a small knock-kneed Italian who finished a sulky last in last week's race, but failed to butt his head against a wall for losing as he did once. Obviously heir to Iron McNamara, Georgetti was once pierced by an eight-inch splinter which he sent to his father to be exhibited. He earns $28,000 per year, has a barber shave him every day of the race, frequently dines on rice, lobster and beer with Tenor Beniamino Gigli of the Metropolitan Opera Company...
Captain R. B. Lawson '32 of the University sabre team, and H. P. Walker '33 provided the amusement of the evening when they engaged in a sabre plume bout, in which each tried to knock a plume from the other's head...