Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like bumper cars at an amusement park, 700-odd pre-medical students needlessly knock each other out every year. Uncertain of medical requirements, they compete intensely in upper-level science courses, to be sure they qualify. The College administration has shown its tacit disapproval of such over-concentration by not setting up a special pre-medical field. But it has never adequately advised pre-meds of scientific requirements, or the advantages of a liberal arts background, and as a result, the pointless duplication of medical school courses in the College has continued...
...Harvard men will return from a victory over Princeton and Yale soberly or otherwise, as the case may be, tack their program covers to the wall in deference to the tradition of while goal posts their predecessors fostered. Perhaps a dishonest few will sneak behind the Stadium and knock down the wooden goal posts on the practice field. Perhaps others will chip away the concrete in the Stadium itself. Or there might be a sudden rash of postgame helmet thefts...
...southeast of Vladivostok, but on successive days, the Navy changed the distance to 123 and then 145 miles. Nevertheless, Henry Cabot Lodge, chief U.S. delegate to the U.N., persisted in his plan to bring the incident before the Security Council. As the council met last week, Vishinsky moved to knock the U.S. complaint off the agenda. He was outvoted...
...their begging bowls; in his office, a peevish Prime Minister grumbled about curdled milk, loudly complained about a badly designed public building, ticked off a Hindi language enthusiast in testy Hindi, finally flounced off for an hour's relaxation at a private screening of Danny Kaye's Knock on Wood...
Records of the class of 1894 at Cornell University list Glenn Scobey Warner as a law student. But as a law student, husky, alert Glenn Warner chafed at the legalisms of case books and lectures. So Warner went elsewhere for his mental work outs. In that era of knock-'em-down, drag-'em-out play, the burly (215 Ibs.) undergraduate set out to prove to Cornell and the world that brains mean as much as brawn in winning football games...