Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enveloped in a swirling froth of snow. In spite of the fact that Swiss authorities had warned that local guides could no longer be asked to risk their lives trying to rescue Eigerwand climbers, two natives clambered to the summit over the usual route, peered down the overhanging wall when the storm let up for a moment, saw no one, returned to the valley. The following morning, as spectators ran to the telescopes for a morbid view of frozen corpses, the quartet calmly walked into Kleine Scheidegg. They had conquered the Eigerwand during the blinding snowstorm, reached their goal...
Less fortunate were a trio of Italian alpinists who were killed last week when a shower of rocks released by a lightning bolt swept them, off a &650-ft. cliff on the south wall of Mt. Marmolata in the Dolomites...
...back to 3,500 B. C. Beneath the oldest level was a stone age cave containing flint instruments and bones. At the 19th level the excavators found a flagged paving in which drawings of horned animals and men had been cut. At the 18th level was a stone fortification wall 15 feet high and 24 feet wide, which indicated that there might have been fighting at Armageddon as far back...
...Adams has been titled "Boots" ever since he went wading in a Kansas City flood. Slight, bespectacled President Thomas B. Hudson of The Polymerization Process Corp., Phillips Pete's favorite offspring, answers to "Tubby." This nicknamed outfit last week registered $25,000,000 in debentures with SEC. Wall Street was sure they would have an easy sale-for in polymerization, Phillips Pete is fathering the latest technique in gasoline manufacture...
Curious parallels show in the two authors' backgrounds as well. Son of a Midwest surgeon, pseudonymous William Blake, now in his 403, has been a broker and financial editor in Wall Street and Europe, four years ago went into the grain business in Antwerp, where Christina