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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ba·laam n. A paragraph describing something wonderful, used to fill out a newspaper column; -- an allusion to the miracle of Balaam's ass speaking. --Numb. xxii. 30. [Cant]
 Balaam basket or box Print., the receptacle for rejected articles.