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Word: knocks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whatever dreams of world empire Adolf Hitler may have, his Ambassador's declaration to Japan seemed to mean that they can wait. Adolf Hitler is a man who does one thing at a time. Last week he was preoccupied with trying to knock out his archenemies, Britain and France, and in the flush of that triumph to build his new Europe which Germany would dominate for 1,000 years. Although France and Britain were still on their feet, they were so groggy that spectators were busy speculating on what sort of Europe Adolf Hitler's Europe would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: Hitler's Europe | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

...Bethlehem Steel (selling under 80 and paying $3.75), United Aircraft (selling at 48 and paying $2.75), nearly a 5% rate of return on the cream of U. S. business. Traders with cash balanced the temptation to snap up these bargains against the thought that fresh Allied disasters might well knock the market down to still more attractive bargain levels before defense spending takes hold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Panic in the Markets | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...Ceilings of its turrets are reinforced concrete ten feet thick, low to the ground like the Maginot Line. Speculation as to what manner of weapon could paralyze the defenders of such a place centred on two possibilities: 1) Bombs (perhaps liquid oxygen) of such strength that their concussion would knock unconscious if not kill any living thing within half a mile - a means that left some question of how Lieut. Witzig and his two assistants managed to survive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TACTICS: Nerve Gas? | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...champion was fixing to buy a ranch with the $10,000 he had earned in seven minutes. "Bring on Henry Armstrong next," drawled the Sweetwater Swatter, itching to get his anvil-strong hands on the welterweight (147 Ib.) champion. "In 30 rounds, Armstrong couldn't knock out the boy ah knocked out in three, so ah ought to do all right with Henry," he added...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sweetwater Swatter | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...Mike") Weber, 72, and Lew ("Meyer") Fields, 73, promptly went into their 63-year-old act at Grand Central Terminal: Meyer cuffed Mike, shook him like an apple tree. When they paused for breath, Weber growled: "All people ever wanted to see us for is to watch Lew knock the hell out of me." Mourned

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 20, 1940 | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

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