Word: altare
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...last Sunday afternoon, in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York, there took place a significant ceremony. Representatives of American sport, professional as well as amateur, marched to the high altar to hear Bishop Manning formally assign the "sports bay" in the new Cathedral...
...this procession were a number of personages known to readers of sporting pages by familiar nicknames that lend themselves readily to the usages of headline writers. Each delegation carried the banner of its sport. At the high altar rail stood Baseball, and Boxing, and Horse Racing and the rest--and no fire came from heaven...
...whom the greetings included the London Times, the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, and the Tokyo Advertiser--is this an anniversary full of gratification. In the very forefront of well-wishers is the college journalist, who sees in this long and distinguished record a vindication of four years novitiate on the altar of the god whose form is of type metal...
Commenting on the Temple of the goddess Astarte, found in his excavations, he said that this was a building containing four columns and an altar for offerings, at the foot of which a Hittite battle ax and a board of jewels, also small seals inscribed with familiar Hittile hieroglyphs, had been found. The discoveries, which were made last autumn, also include the actual remains of sacrificed animals...
...only right that two discordant personalities be allowed to separate and pursue their own course of life. Every woman has an ideal man of her own conception. Some are fortunate enough to meet him soon in life and to live happily ever after their first trip to the altar. My several marriages are stepping stones in my search for my masculine ideal...