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Word: balke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nothing could balk the Information Desk. Like the sphinx--it is very wise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Do You Want A Body?" Stumps University 7600 Oracle--Another Voice Asks Chinese Version of "How's Your Oil?" | 2/1/1927 | See Source »

...public may like to be fooled; it is often considered perfectly legitimate to fool them. We rather balk, though, at bricks gilded with piety. Swindling is never commendable; when supported by ministers of the Gospel and the sanctity of the Church, it is somewhat shocking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SANCTIFIED GOLD BRICKS | 1/19/1927 | See Source »

...discover for themselves the beauty and the inspiration of the work. And be delivers for themselves the beauty and the inspiration of the work. And he delivers thoughtful, though provoking lectures on the content of the Old Testament. He is a great teacher. Though Plato and Aristotle might balk at implied Hebraism, they would be pleased at his efforts. Why must his method remain eccentric? It is difficult for the undergraduate to answer. And when he has read the Outlines of Courses it is even more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WANTED TEACHERS | 9/27/1926 | See Source »

Brown's runs came in the first and in the seventh. After one had been retired in the opening frame, Booth threw wildly in fielding Edes' lunt the Boar right fielder, taking second. A balk advanced him to the far corner, and Ruchstall's hit through short stop sent him over. The other Brown run came in the seventh when Guerney caught one of Booth's fast balls and sent it deep into center field. Burns hooted the ball before picking it up, and the runner made the circuit on the combined hit and messy fielding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHOESTRING WIN OVER BROWN EKED OUT BY CRIMSON | 6/14/1926 | See Source »

...Garden. There is an ever growing impression that Laurette Taylor is the greatest U.S. actress. Devotees of Ethel Barrymore and Mrs. Fiske will balk indignantly at this assertion, for the impression has been current for some years that Mrs. Fiske is our greatest actress, and that Miss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Nov. 30, 1925 | 11/30/1925 | See Source »

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