Word: altare
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...special service in Chicago's First Unitarian Church dedicated to U. S. railroaders, President Ralph Budd of Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and Albert Nathaniel Williams of Chicago & Western Indiana, worshipped, afterwards inspected a 200-lb. miniature locomotive which had been set on the altar...
...next item is a recent addition to the Museum's collection of Romanesque sculpture, a wooden statue of the 12th century. It is an altar figure of the Virgin and Child and it probably comes from the region of the Ile de France...
Under a canopy of gold and silver the Archbishop-elect marched with a procession to the high altar where a papal bull was read to him, formally announcing his appointment. After Mass, Archbishop Martínez began to sermonize. Just as the primate, whose cheerful grin for photographers belies his sober preoccupation with canon law and theology, reached the point where he promised "to comply with the desires of the Catholic people of Mexico," the floor directly in front of him fell in. With a terrible snapping and crackling, the ancient planks parted and 70 people dropped 18 feet into...
...makes his machine gunner in several brilliant air-raids. Meanwhile, in Paris and at camp, Hayward has fallen in love with Miriam Hopkins, Muni's wife, and this time it's no design for living. A situation that sacrifices the friendship of the two men on the altar of a woman's love can only result in the death of one of the lovers, and with superb irony it is Hayward who dies, leaving Muni to go back, broken by the ordeal, to his unfaithful spouse. And for the war which causes the folly and the insane madness...
...fastened down in one church in one city, but which can travel around to every parish and mission in the diocese. Such a chair is rather useless if it merely provides a place for the bishop to sit. It must be surrounded with other essentials and other people. An altar for worship, books for study; things of beauty to inspire; tools for work; pictures of society, the world, and the Church to challenge. These elements . . . can make a Cathedral which will be of real use to the diocese provided it is able to go to the people who need...