Word: convert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Social Service Committee is doing an extremely limited part of its proper work well. It is leaving entirely undone almost everything that might convert undergraduate social work-at present anaemic and ineffective--into a living and vital force both in the college itself and in the larger community...
...insidious effort to dry up America has now taken the form of "boring from within", so familiar to political parties. The Salvation Army has set out to convert bootleggers. The report is brief, and one is left in the delicious uncertainty as to whether the Salvation Army is going to make Christians or prohibitionists out of the bootleggers...
...stage production. Thus it would serve as another way for the student to round out a truly liberal education. The Fine Arts Department already has several men fully competent to teach such a course, and there are, outside of Harvard, others readily obtainable. Only official sanction is needed to convert this suggestion into a highly desirable actuality...
...speed. But for this terrifying attempt on undergraduate life, there must surely be other contributing reasons, however occult. Perhaps it is a new expression of the old antipathy between Town and Gown. There is also the hypothesis that the vicious driver, instead of being a psychopathic case, is a convert to Fundamentalism trying like a Mussulman to roar up to Heaven with the life of a Modernist for registration, license, and gate pass. Whatever the explanation, the humor of the situation is rapidly passing beyond that stage characterized by Dean Swift as "A college joke to help the dumps...
...than other pueblos, and its age has been tentatively set at from 5,000 to 10,000 years - which makes it as old or older than the most ancient Egyptian tombs. Governor Scrugham has accepted the title of "Pueblo Grande de Nevada" for the buried city, and plans to convert it into a state park. Needless to say, the work of excavation has only begun...