Word: ways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bulgarians! The war clauses no longer exist. This great success is due to the wise leadership of Tsar Boris III who has accomplished it in the proper way, at the proper time. Long live the Tsar! Long live Bulgaria...
...those with no head for heights, all mountain climbers are crazy; but climbers divide themselves into two schools : sportsmen who try to reach their objective with a minimum of risk, and danger-loving fatalists who want to do it the hard way...
Swiss guides agreed that the 1938 invaders had no better chance than their predecessors. From the hotel terrace at Kleine Scheidegg, a mile below, curious tourists and anxious natives watched the climbers through telescopes. For three days they watched them, inching their way like tiny black spiders up a white web. The third evening, the quartet that had started out as two competing teams joined ropes, stood lashed to the rock, 500 ft. from the top, waiting for dawn and the crawl to victory...
...bought binoculars and made bets on whether Warde would jump. Most spectacular shots were caught by Associated Press Cameraman Harold Harris (Warde, arms akimbo, plummeting past the sixth floor of the hotel), and Acme Cameraman Charles Haacker (Warde toppling from the hotel marquee, police scurrying out of his way...
...degree, is now working for his Ph.D. To date he has built no working model of his design. Said he: "There is no reason to build a working model. Any radio man in the country could do it easily. There is nothing to test because the only way to test it is to crack up a ship...