Word: balkanize
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...East of Europe," said Mr. Black, "there has been a negligible amount of satisfactory education accomplished by the native schools in the past half century. The Balkan countries are notorious for the agitation and strife which have prevailed in and among them almost through all history...
...recalled that M. Liaptcheff, although not a Militarist, took an active part in the prosecution of the so-called "First Balkan War" (1912-1913), and signed the Treaty of London, which ended that struggle and freed Bulgaria from Turkey. He was also one of the signers of the Armistice at Saloniki in 1918, and has twice served as Minister of Finance, once in the War Cabinet of M. Radoslavov...
Queen Marie of Roumania, famed matchmaker for Balkan dynasties, long ago devised a sentimental formula to account gracefully for her inability to manage her eldest son, the Crown Prince Carpi...
Captain Wilkins is an Australian by his papers and a Nomanslander by his instincts. Educated in Sydney to be an engineer, the world first observed him as a motion picture man, when he secured the first front-line close-ups of the Balkan Wars in 1912. He went with Shackleton to the suburbs of the South Pole. He went north with Stefansson. He was a War aviator. These last three years he has been beating through tropical Australia for the British Museum. Last week Captain Wilkins announced that he would act upon Stefansson's theory that a man may live...
...tomorrow's meeting, Professor Hudson will speak on his observations gained at Geneva last summer. His speech will have especial significance in view of the League's recent show of power in stopping the Greco-Bulgarian war which threatened to start another Balkan struggle, and its present activity in settling the Syrian question. The subject of international cooperation is a timely one also, because of the present intercollegiate movement for American participation in the World Court...