Word: spires
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people every day look at the steeple-jack repairing the spire of First Church Unitarian in the Square...
While the Godless cheered, Red Soldiers shinnied up the steeple, tied ropes to it. A snorting tractor-symbol of the Five-Year Plan-was hitched to the ropes, snorted, backfired, got under way and pulled down not only Kolpana's spire but half the ancient church with it. Rushing into the ruins, Godless comrades seized and carried off the church's simple brass & copper fixtures, "needed to make Soviet airplanes...
...find much amusement in professors who tread hats and coats and the self respect of students with equal lack of fooling. The moronic intelligentsia works off the escape complex in a celluloid dosage of Will Rogers. H. T. P., whom the Vagabond admires, can wax lyric over the spire of Memorial Church, can weight the Church and Widener in the balance and find them not wanting, and can borrow the better puns of his admirers. There are those who listen to the radio, even unto the weather report. But at present the air of Massachusetts is filled with a dark...
...limited than it is at present. The number of regular attendants has grown. On a basis of the results observable at present, it may be concluded, interest in the Memorial Church has gone farther than a mere inspection of the brick and mortar, or a glimpse at the towering spire. A great church must arise from the undivided, unsollicited interest and support of a numerous and living congregation. It is in these respects that the Harvard Memorial Church is creating a distinguished history...
Copper and slate will be used to cover the spire, and scrolls and figures in harmony with the staid Colonial architecture will be used in decoration. A large wind-vane, erroneously called a weather vane, will be cut from copper to cap to Chapel...