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Word: knocks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to Crimson Coach Bruch Munro the BLC, which is composed largely of former II men, "comes over every year hoping to knock the tar out of us, but we plan to do the same thing." It should be a good show if the BLC doesn't get run off its feet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baseball, Track, Lacrosse Squads Will Start Home Seasons Today | 4/15/1950 | See Source »

...industrialization." He attacks the agrarian tradition of Turner because it has focussed all attention on the agricultural interior of the continent and prevented recognition of the vital relationship of America to the world community. These assertions are carefully reasoned and supported by prodigious research. Although they do not knock the props from beneath the classic Turner theory, they delineate with convincing clearness important limitations...

Author: By Roy M. Goodman, | Title: Buffalo Bill and Turner | 4/14/1950 | See Source »

...children and their friends. His golf games with members of his staff are famed for their surprising turns. In one such game, after betting agreements had been reached on the proper penalty for all known infractions of the rules, Boyd teed off and somehow contrived to knock the ball into his golf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Mar. 27, 1950 | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

Meanwhile, the musical side of the picture gets progressively worse. Upon arrival in New York, Rick is supposed to knock out the jazz impresarios with a torrid solo in a dive called "Galba's." In the picture he goes to Galba's, takes out his horn, and tears into "With a Song in My Heart...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 3/22/1950 | See Source »

...matter, they stir up showers of high-speed electrons which fog a photographic plate. The principal purpose of the Illinois betatron will be to produce copious supplies of mesons, the particles which are thought to be connected with the "binding force" that holds atomic nuclei together. Powerful X rays knock mesons out of the nuclei. Said Professor Donald William Kerst, developer of the betatron and builder of the Illinois machine: "We are in business, making mesons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Electron Fattener | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

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