Word: spiringly
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Long and lean, a single white spire fights its way through the trees in Hanover. New Hampshire, to tell the world that a college shivers beneath it. Visitors descending from the rim of hills need only follow this barren beacon to find the cloisters that are Dartmouth, and once there, to help them understand the uniqueness of the country's loneliest college...
...after hours, for relaxation from his chores as designer of the Festival of Britain's Sea & Ships Building and Glasgow University's new atomic-research laboratory. In his design he conscientiously followed all the requirements set down by the Bishop of Coventry and his advisers, incorporated the spire of the old cathedral as an important part. He also added a few ideas of his own, e.g., a chapel in the form of a crusader's tent, zigzagging walls, electrically operated doors, and an enormous modern tapestry (yet to be designed) to hang behind the altar...
Steeplechasing was developed by disappointed foxhunters who did just that. They chased steeples. If they failed to flush a fox, the rough & ready riders would set a course on a distant church spire, then set off hell-for-leather over any obstacle that got in their way. Last week's Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree was as rough & tumble as any oldtimer could wish. Only three of the starting field of 36 even finished the race...
Lowell has four new resident and one non-resident tutors. LeRoy C. Breunig, Romance Languages; Gordon Campbell, Anthropology; Edgar F. Shannon, Jr. '47, English; and Herhert J. Spire, Government, comprise the former, while Robert S. Schwantes '43, History and Literature, is the new non-resident addition...
...using Alpinists' gear-hook, rope and nylon sling-they reached the top safely, but cracked off a piece of the spire on the way down. The crash brought a policeman. Oxford's long-suffering town fathers found the two guilty of "public mischief," but postponed sentence, "to see what [the students] will do in the way of compensation...