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Word: balke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...being corrupted by the addition of old-style Turkish flourishes. Many a young Turk, once he has mastered the new letters at a Government school, goes home to his village and soon develops a "dialect alphabet" which only his closest intimates can read. How to wipe out this maddening balk of progress? Obviously, with typewriters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Dialect Alphabets | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...entertainments will feature a program being arranged by the Union for this week-end. This afternoon at 4 o'clock Edouard Horemans, world's champion 18.2 balk-line billiard player, and Welker Cochran, American title-holder, will play an exhibition match in the living room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNION PRESENTS BILLIARD MATCH AND H-Y PICTURES | 1/12/1929 | See Source »

Tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock, Edward Horemans, world's champion 18.2 balk-line billiard player, and Welcher Cochran, American champion, will play an exhibition match at the Harvard Union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WORLD'S CHAMPION BALK-LINE PLAYER AND COCHRAN MEET | 1/11/1929 | See Source »

...will play 250 points of 18.2 balk-line and then 15 or 20 points of three cushion billiards. After the match each man will give an exhibition of trick shots. The Union intends to place in the Living Room the stands of the H. A. A. now erected in the Hemenway Gymnasium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WORLD'S CHAMPION BALK-LINE PLAYER AND COCHRAN MEET | 1/11/1929 | See Source »

...will first play 250 points of 18.2 balk-line and then 15 or 20 points of three cushion billiards. After their match, each man will give an exhibition of trick shots. The Union intends to place in the Living Room the stands of the H. A. A. now erected in the Hemenway gymnasium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOREMANS AND COCHRAN TO PLAY BILLIARDS AT UNION | 1/5/1929 | See Source »

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