Word: convert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Refutation of "Margery's" claims will reach innumerable people. Just how many of them it will convert to a scientific view is another matter. Man-kind will always believe, in what it wants to believe, and it wants to believe in life after death. The possibility of communicating with the dead is merely a method of proving to its own thorough satisfaction that immortality is a fact...
...Hulse made an exquisite Centurion with realistic British Army tendencies. John Thorn, the strong man convert who finds it necessary to hit his adversaries's cheeks so that they may have the opportunity of testing their faith, was a very necessary and worthy addition to the company. His interpretation was equalled but not surpassed by Mr. Compton, as Caesar...
...responded with a counter query, asking since when had he become a convert to shooting only by order of a court; but this was left unanswered...
...bill to convert the military reservation at Camp Benning, Ga., into a national forest. (Went to the House...
...century educators have realized that college life can be effectively organized and college traditions adequately inculcated only when the student body is split up into subordinate units. That was the basic idea of the "Quads" which Woodrow Wilson planned for Princeton. President Lowell was himself once a convert to some such idea. But throughout the land educators have continued to lavish money upon laboratory training and research, upon technical and business schools and to shed copiously sentimental tears over each new evidence of the decline in the true spirit of college life. New York Times...