Word: order
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unbeatable; on the east side of the valley the Alps rise 8,441 ft. at the top of the Naafkopf. The biggest village is Vaduz (pop. 1,715), the capital. None of the others shelters more than 1,500. There are no jails. Three green-suited gendarmes keep order. The inhabitants of the mountainous, comic-opera principality are largely cattle raisers, farmers. Chief means of transport is the bicycle and the streets of the sleepy little valley towns are usually dotted with cyclists, ambling cows and goats. The ruling family owns Liechtenstein's only industries-i.e., a weaving...
Suddenly a squall struck the party. Rare air, steeps, ice are hazards climbers expect to overcome, but blizzards and high wind are hazards they run away from. Leader Joe Leuthold at once gave the order to descend. The wind was so sharp the Mazamas had to back down the draw. Ice crusted their goggles; sleet froze on their faces and clothes. After the party had reached the base of the chute, they broke strings, reassembled, continued the descent. Some of them were not dressed warmly enough for the extreme cold...
...Rhine has selected material in order to prove his own belief; he inferentially admits that he stops scoring when a subject's percentage of correct guesses falls below a certain limit...
...astronomical probability figures given by ESP advocates, in order to rule out chance, do not prove that ESP exists. The science of probability is extremely controversial; moreover, science does not use probability to prove the existence of something which is otherwise undemonstrated...
...helping to cement good feeling between Japan and the U. S., Dr. James Augustin Brown Scherer, onetime (1908-20) president of California Institute of Technology, last year received from the Japanese Government a jeweled medal, the Imperial Order of the Sacred Treasure. Unlike Dr. Scherer's previous eleven books on Japan, Japan Defies the World, published last January, was unpopular with the Japanese, who promptly banned it. Piqued, Dr. Scherer last week handed back his medal. Said he: "If this emblem was given me to seal my lips, I don't want...