Word: convert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Impossible!" the Navy ejaculated. "One of our first-line ships, the Florida, is out of commission because there are no funds to repair her boilers. We have no funds to convert our old coal-burners to modern oil-burners. For economy's sake we have been obliged to concentrate all our fast oil-burners in the Pacific, leaving only our slow coal-burners in the Atlantic where oil is more expensive. The Naval Air Service is inadequate; yet the Director of the Budget has amputated 60% of our requests for next year. We were refused $30 million to modernize...
...power of Stinnes over the German mind is shown in Harden's book, by an imaginary dialogue between two men-in-the-street. They declare in all seriousness that Stinnes has proposed to convert the Papacy into a company called "St. Peter's Successors, Limited" with which is to be amalgamated "the Russian Greek Orthodox Church and affiliated in the form of a religious syndicate with other religious organizations in- cluding the Tibetan Lama Church, and that he has plans for establishing a paper factory in the Vatican grounds and founding a moving picture city near Rome which...
...interview, "especially in American universities, would be inestimable. I admit, of course, that a reformer who sits at a desk and evolves Utopian theories is, in the final estimate, useless. But once a student has achieved liberty of thought, his next step is to stump the country trying to convert people, and then he becomes a factor in the progress of civilization...
...General tendency toward speeding up the play and encouragement of use of run or pass to convert point after touchdown...
...girl, bent on going wrong for the sake of the silk stockings she'll get. Then she meets a priest, falls in love with him, tries to go straight, to win his smiles and maybe his kisses. When he repulses her advances, bang goes another convert! After a year with another man, again the wages of sin are a baby. The play groans under a load of sentiment. The characterization is conventional, enlivened by small-boy efforts to say something risqu...