Word: nave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years that followed truly brought glory to Mem Hall. Those were the times when she fed one thousand students daily under the vaulted arches of her nave. Hardly a meal passed without some outburst of excitement. Bloody fights among the colored waiters, Class wars, and demonstrations against the constant stream of sightseers who thronged the galleries to "watch the animals eat" served to hallow the bust-lined walls. Many were the wild tales that passed about of stray dogs which disappeared into her kitchens never again to see the light...
...architecture, combining a red and blue slate roof with a monstrous green clock tower, no longer appeals to the aesthetic taste of the twentieth century. To the unsuspecting freshman it looms up on his first day as an artistic nightmare. Since the commons was discontinued in 1924, the tremendous nave is used only for registration, examinations, and Commencement. At these times the few remaining busts may be seen unreverently adorned with hats of modern style. Many debate the feasibility of junking the collossal structure. Awaiting this last humiliation Mem Hall still towers above the surrounding landscape, triumphant in its magnificent...
...grass around Canterbury Cathedral on the morning of June 1 was white with the ashes of burned-out incendiary bombs, the nave was carpeted with stone dust and shattered glass, the cloisters and quadrangle were a mess of rubble. But the main structure was still virtually intact. These facts were revealed last week when the British censor belatedly admitted that Nazi dive-bombers savagely attacked the cathedral "in reprisal for Cologne...
...largest Gothic church in the world was opened to its full length last Sunday. When the great grey curtains separating the new nave from the older crossing and choir were dramatically drawn back, the congregation of 10,000 in New York's Cathedral of St. John the Divine saw an unbroken 520-ft. vista grander than that of any medieval cathedral...
Westminster Abbey, Britain's foremost receptacle of memories, had its lantern roof, the central part of the Abbey directly over the crossing of the nave and transept, burned out. Tons of debris fell on the spot where King George VI and Queen Elizabeth-and many monarchs before them-were crowned. The Henry VII Chapel was damaged, but the Unknown Warrior in his tomb and the poets in their Corner were not disturbed...