Word: convert
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...face value, the result of Saturday's game was disappointing. There were not a few predictions that the University team would win by two touchdowns, and it was considered doubtful our opponents would score; the thought of being obliged to convert certain defeat into a tie by a long run would have found few supporters. Such is the optimism which will persistently put in appearance when a good start has been made and reckons without its host to its own misfortune. It is to be hoped that this misfortune has amounted to destruction...
...report for the year 1872-3 President Eliot says, "The gymnasium of the University is completely outgrown . . . it is not possible to enlarge the building with advantage. As the University has plenty of unoccupied land, it would be advisable . . . to erect a plain wooden building and to convert the present gymnasium into a swimming bath. . . . In 1859, when the gymnasium was finished, there were 623 students in Cambridge departments of the University; there...
...living in Perkins have petitioned the Corporation to be allowed to convert two of the present bedrooms in the south entry into a living room, which they will furnish and use for a smoking and reading room...
...will be furnished with a navigation lock, 350 feet long, 40 feet wide and 13 feet in depth below mean low water level, and with a drawbridge and sluices. The lock will be on the Boston side the sluices on the Cambridge side. When completed, the dam will convert the tidal estuary of the Charles into a fresh water basin covering about 800 acres...
...other articles in the issue,--"A Convert," a story based on the Yale Bicentennial, "Another Word for Robert Louis Stevenson," by George C. Hirst, and "Autumn" and "Ambria's Thanks-giving," poems by Lauriston Ward and R. M. Green,--are all exceedingly good...