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Word: knocked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...should get it a day off and come to see the footballers tell it to Mr. Haughtonstein to say to the Freshmen not to get fresh with Izzy Kaplan because some day Izzy will knock them for a ghoul because Izzy is a hard egg when he is mad and I hope you feel the same...

Author: By Izzy Kaplan., | Title: IZZY KAPLAN PICKS "THE HARVARD BOYS" AS WINNERS | 11/22/1919 | See Source »

...being armed--perhaps because of it--with rifles which the instructors graphically said were made to shoot around corners, the men made decently presentable scores. If the targets had been a regiment of Prussians, it is to be presumed that such shooting would have been at least sufficient to knock the spikes from their helmets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BACK FROM THE FRONT. | 6/11/1917 | See Source »

Good songs are included, especially a few modern ones, such as "If I Knock the L Out of Kelly" which Marguerite Farrell gets across; there is no other way to describe it. All in all, we are glad Lew Fields is in town, for if his co-workers are not up to snuff, he still is able to make us forget for a while that there are such things as wars and elections...

Author: By F. E. P. jr., | Title: The Theatre in Boston | 11/22/1916 | See Source »

...high! It's no harder on your gun to knock the feathers off an eagle than to kill a skunk," was the advice which "Billy" Sunday gave to over 20,000 students in the big tabernacle on "Student Night" last evening. The big tabernacle was crowded to capacity and fully 10,000 were turned away at the most notable service so far of the "Billy" Sunday campaign. Delegations from every educational institution in and nearby Boston were present. After the opening hymn each delegation gave its cheer. The singing by the huge choir, particular the "echo-singing" across the tabernacle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "FROG NOISIER THAN WHALE" | 11/18/1916 | See Source »

...which he could do well and one brilliantly--punt, forward pass and run. No eleven could be certain what was to happen, and Mahan made the most of the doubtful state of mind. Harvard's interference in the case of a run would pile the tackle all over himself, knock the end galley west and generally take care of the back who was coming up to relieve the two over-pressed defenders on the end of the line. The chances that the full-back has of making as though to run with the ball and then throwing a forward pass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW YORK EDITOR GIVES "THREAT GAME" PRAISE. | 9/28/1916 | See Source »

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