Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This doesn't mean that we advocate that people who have something to say should yank unwilling students out of bed and force them into captive audience as you imply these men did last week. However, we do defend the right of such visitors to knock on our doors and cordially invite us to hear what they have to say. As the occupants of the room in Eliot House where one of these meetings was held, we should like to reassure any of your readers who may have been alarmed by your remarks that we could not detect the least...
...Bogart, seeking out the sin and corruption of the big city and fighting alone for a free press, free love, a free hand, and free money. Charlie Olnut is gone. The Bogart of Knock on Any Door, and The Enforcer is back...
...undefended wicket towards the defending batsman and tries to hit his wicket. If he can do so, the unlucky batsman will be declared "stumped," and will have to retire off the field, to be replaced by a teammate. Since a team numbers eleven players, the enemy will have to knock out nine such men before the side...
...time armored Bank Truck No. 512 stopped at the First National Bank in Danvers, Mass. (pop. 15,000) one warm spring morning last week, its three-man crew was ready to knock off for a cup of coffee. Collecting bags of money is essentially as dull as collecting bags of laundry -the crew, in fact, referred to the Danvers trip as the "laundry run," since they were picking up $320,000 in worn and dirty bills which were to be cleaned or destroyed by the Government. Then, too, they had been on the road more than three hours, had made...
Thus, in 1927, wrote Richard Weil Jr. in Yale's famed Lit. magazine. The poem was prophetic, for destiny's doors seemed to develop a habit of opening before brainy young Richard Weil's imperious knock. The doors of Macy's, the department-store chain, opened because Weil was the grandson of Isidor Straus, one of the original owners. But Weil rose rapidly on his own merits. By 32, he had been propelled from a sales clerk to president of Bamberger's, Macy's Newark (N.J.) store...