Word: billiard
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...dozen steep hills, but there are only two lines of street cars and no taxis in town. Most of the lugging is done with Chinese carriers, who have a sort of chair arrangement they pack on their back, and I'll bet they could carry pianos and billiard tables if they had any here...
...meandered to his feet and sauntered along with his stream, Anxiously musing on the dearth of the great American family touches in the Yard he walked out toward the Union building, a favorite rendezvous of his...he made it a point to watch billiard-shots carom about the Lincoln green. And then he stopped with great amaze...
...passed on to the billiard balls. Of course, there are only two homes in the Yard...and the Vagabond has always made it a cardinal principle to lash the vice and space the name...
...Champaign, Ill. Professor Frank G. Dickinson divided a standard billiard table into 398,000 blocks, calculated that there are 63,000,000,000,000,000 (quadrillion) possible billiard shots...
Till 1929, Willie Hoppe won the billiard championship so consistently, that people came to regard it as his rightful possession. At that time, however, he left the National Billiard Association, taking with him Welker Cochrane and others of the world's most expert players. This group has formed a, clique, which contains the great masters of the game, and has Welker Cochrane and Willie Hoppe as its acknowledged leaders...