Word: spiringly
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...chapel, which is going up rapidly in the center of the Yard, will be surmounted by a single spire rising to to a height of 200 feet, ten feet lower than the Memorial Hall tower, and dominating the Yard. The spire rises above the Memorial room from the middle point on the south side of the building, facing Widener Library...
...Washington, D.C. last week, firemen answered an alarm at the Washington Cathedral, discovered that what Edwin N. Lewis of the Cathedral staff had thought was a cloud of smoke around the 225 ft. spire was a great swarm of gnats...
...design said he: "My inspiration for the church spire came from the fine spire of the old North Church in New Haven. I was afraid all through that one of the Yale boys would also work from that, but none of them did." Well might Winner Reichardt have feared the Yale threat, for in the past four years two Yale men from the recently enlarged art school at New Haven have won the Prix de Rome for architecture. Schools with the greatest number of fellowship winners are: 1) Columbia; 2) Pennsylvania; 3) M. I. T. and Yale...
...hustle-and-bustle indicative of a prime event. Clerks scuttled across thick-rugged floors in more-than-ordinary haste. Lawyers swung in and out of doorways bearing armfuls of documents. Typists rattled their keys with a triumphant staccato. In a high-ceiled inner room overlooking Trinity Church's grimy spire, an elderly man with thin white hair, a well-trimmed white beard parted in the middle, good solid shoulders and a small paunch, sat bolt upright in a stiff high-backed chair. The pivot of all the commotion, he was intensely busy?and intensely happy. Within a few days...
...that most of the work was part of Harvard's "house plan," but they had no conception of what they would see next Fall. The architects' drawings, published yesterday, of the two Houses now under construction, promise structures of impressive grandeur. Possibly in recognition of the beauty of the spire on the Business School library, they have planned towers for each of these two new groups of buildings...