Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...children do--that is to say, they placed some on top of others and some next to others. Once they had all the blocks erected into a magnificently lofty column. For a moment they stood aside and admired their handiwork, and then Johnnie said impatiently, "Oh, let's knock it down! I don't like it. I want another pile." So, with mirthful glee they destroyed their tower and built another...
...Harvard University constructed a chapel. In the 1930's Harvard University says, "Oh, let's knock it down. We don't like it. We want another chapel...
...middle-aged woman answered the correspondent's knock, went to fetch Mme Ekaterina Dzhugashvili. Lenin called her son "Stalin" ("Steel") for short, and the name has stuck, but the Man of Steel's proper name is Josef Vissarionovitch Dzhugashvili...
...humble Japanese mountaineer one chill evening long ago was sitting close to his stove when there came a knock on the worn brown door of his hut. Opening, he beheld standing before him his Emperor, the Son of Heaven, shivering with a blue-nosed retinue. The Emperor was lost in the mountains. No food had been in the royal stomach for some time. So honored was the mountaineer by the visit, so solicitous was he for his Emperor's health that he set out an unusually large dish of his best seaweed jelly. When the meal was over...
...that moment an impressive knock informed the interviewer that further discussion was impossible, so he betook himself to the wings where he happily just avoided bumping into Miss Laverne Barker, the form Divine. Miss Barker, it seemed was from Kentucky, and the glorious South, pleasant shooting and what not served for a few minutes of pleasant conversation...