Word: spiring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Climb. Unlike the Matterhorn (14,780 ft.), a jagged spire of rock to which little snow clings, the white stairway of Mont Blanc looks deceptively accessible from Chamonix in the valley below. Any tourist with an urge can hire guides and make the one-day ascent by cable car and a trek across the Bossons Glacier to the Grands-Mulets Hotel. If he still wants more, he can be awakened at 1 a.m. next morning for the big climb to the summit, more than a mile higher over treacherous snow crevasses, where high winds blow unceasingly and there...
...midst of the Golden Triangle the Smithfield Evangelical Church raised a finger to God-a spire constructed of wrought iron. But Frick, Carnegie and the Mellons had left a city which was closer to man-a city in which was concentrated all the evils and ailments and shocks and problems of the nation's industrial...
...Century the Huns destroyed Strasbourg, but the city rose again until it became part of the Holy Roman Empire-the first and only European union. Since then, the single, jagged spire of Strasbourg's red stone cathedral has seen the tides of war sweep back & forth across the Alsatian plain. This week Strasbourg became the center of a great if still uncertain move to revive the dream of European union. In the central hall of Strasbourg's university, delegates from ten European countries assembled in the first session of the Council of Europe...
...Provost stated that the large amount of money necessary to keep the library in operation was the chief objection, Spire said, Librarians have estimated that $10,000 would be needed...
Although the matter has not definitely been closed, since the Corporation must approve the decision before its becomes final, chances are very slim that Lamont will be kept open, Spire said...