Word: convert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Quick, accurate passing and deadly accuracy in basket shooting quickly ran up the Crimson total. Leekley and Dorn, fed by passes from the other members of the team, together accounted for five field goals. The Eli basketeers had but few opportunities to score and failed through poor shooting to convert any of these opportunities into points. Their total of four points for the period came from free throws. Goals from foul added seven points to the Harvard total...
...yesterday we learned that the Nicaraguan Conservative leader, Diaz, (president or usurper depending on the point of view) wishes to convert his country into a United States protectorate. His action lends color to the report that he is controlled by "vested interests", New York bankers in particular. Two weeks ago 1000 additional Marines were dispatched to aid Admiral Latimer. In their efforts to protect American lives and property and the surveyors' stages that are the proposed Nicaraguan Canal they have occupied two positions of vital strategic importance toward which the Liberals were aiming...
Mexican peasants are quite apt to see an apparition of the Blessed Virgin almost anywhere, and forthwith convert the spot into a shrine. Even a chalet de nécessité became by this means a place of worship in Sonora. Last week a group of workmen were interrupted in preparing to dynamite a large rock near Guadalupe, by a mob of peasant women who insisted that the Mother of God had once sat upon that very rock. Agnostics, the dynamiters were unimpressed. Passionate, the women clung to the Virgin's rock, defied the workmen to blow them...
...these demands may not "have justification? Projects that eventually will be resolved into completed works, purposes and policies that in time to come must be adopted and financed, if accepted in their entirety today, would throw a tax burden upon the people that would cripple business, check prosperity and convert our annual surplus into an annual deficit. What needs to be done should be done. ... If I err in my judgment I prefer to err on the side of saving rather than on the side of spending...
...demeure girl of many lovers. There is the quiet old gentleman whose wife proved to be a dope flend. There is the tender-hearted but masterful young lady whose happiness, which consisted in reforming others, was inevitably followed by tragedy when some untoward incident broke her spell and the convert, be it lover or friend or fellow employee, backslid. It is in the retailing of these experiences that Mrs. Woodward can lay a claim to the attention of people generally. Her book is written with a certain ardor which seems to go always with some carelessness of phrase and structure...