Word: spire
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...when Willard L. Sperry, chairman of the Board of Preachers, dedicated Memorial Church on Armistice Day, 1932, the names of the 373 Harvard men who died for the Allied cause were handsomely inscribed in brass letters on the travertine tablets of the memorial room, directly below the spire. On the floor lay Harvard's insignia, on the ceiling the seal of the United States--E Pluribus Unum...
...turn, abducted by Lampoon editors. After a daring escape, Maccoby and his cohort flew to New York and presented the bird to the Russian delgation to the U.N. as "a sort of American bird of peace," on behalf of the Lampoon, requesting it be placed on the spire of the new Moscow University. The Lampoon president, John H. Updike '54, who was not amused, lodged an international protest and secured the bird from the perplexed Russians, thus foiling one of the most original attempts at super-power reconciliation of the Cold...
Grantham, a market town of 28,000 in Lincolnshire, has three claims to fame: the 281-ft. spire of St. Wulfram's Church is the third highest in England, Sir Isaac Newton went to school there, and Margaret Hilda Thatcher (nee Roberts) was born and raised in an apartment over her family's grocery store at the corner of North Parade and Broad streets...
...slow train back from Bath stops at Salisbury (pronounced Sawlsbry), whose 13th century gothic cathedral boasts the tallest spire in Britain (404 ft.); it tilts 291/2 in. to the southwest. The cathedral houses the best-preserved of only four original copies of the Magna Carta, and the country's oldest working clock, which first tolled time around...
...leisurely three or four days, with scarcely a neon sign in sight. (A Leyland Mini rents for about $100 a week, unlimited mileage, and sips petrol as if it were rare brandy.) Coventry has risen nobly from the ashes of its 1940 bombing. Next to the surviving western spire of the late medieval cathedral stands the great modern cathedral with vertical thrusts of rose-colored stone and Graham Sutherland's striking altar tapestry...