Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Opportunity's first knock was delivered by none other than that distinguished alumnus of the University of Maine and Yale, Rudy Vallee. His magnanimous offer was to raise "Fair Harvard" to the basis of the Stein Song. Thus popularized the anthem could be crooned through the anthem could be crooned through the medium of the microphone and loudspeaker straight into the hearts of his adoring public. However the department foolishly overlooked this chance of placing Harvard's name before millions to whom it would otherwise have registered blank except perhaps for a mental picture of a well-known five cent...
...Knock number one opened up vistas no less vast than Rudy's microphone for putting Harvard in the public eye. From purely altruistic motives a young man came out of the west and offered to brandish the baton for the University band. His name is Charles "Buddy" Rogers and his charming presence has endeared him in the hearts of movie fans the country over...
...York, Herbert Hoover saw a Negro knock another Negro down. Going to help the stricken party, Herbert Hoover was arrested with the two belligerents, taken to gaol. Negro Hoover was exonerated, freed...
...years ago the Society of Automotive Engineers and the American Petroleum Institute joined forces and appointed this committee to find a uniform scale by which the knock-reducing quality of fuels could be expressed. At that time they explained that knocking is not directly caused by valves or carbon but by irregular and too rapid explosion of gasoline injected into cylinders overheated by any cause?insulating carbon deposits, lime coatings in the cooling system, faulty oiling...
...discover the exact influence of these materials on gasoline and to find a means of giving numerical values to specially treated fuels was the task of the committee. According to the announcement, the committee proceeded by selecting two chemicals, one knock-preventing (iso-octane), one knock-producing (normal heptane). Numerical rating was arrived at by noting the number of parts of non- knocking isooctane which must be added 1 to ten parts of heptane to duplicate exactly the fuel being rated. Thus, a fuel with a rating of 5 would be inordinately bad; fuel with a rating of 50, superlatively...