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Word: convert (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should be found that this huge floating debt is due to the government's inability to convert it into long term bonds, the indictment against the people is even worse. We no longer have more money than time. We are up to our ears in debt, refuse to face the facts, and are spending lavishly. It is always difficult to curb and sacrifice. That is why people are talking today so glibly of redistribution and dispossession. The rearrangement of two lines never made a triangle; only the creation of new assets will be able to pay off our debt incurred...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NATIONAL EXTRAVAGANCE | 6/17/1920 | See Source »

...built. The personnel of the contestants is chosen from a group of men who form the greatest fraternity in the world--a group which shoulder to shoulder faced the constant menace of hazardous flights over enemy territory and amid a thousand dangers. Their present problem is to convert their fellows to a recognition of their plans to create a college movement to help our national defense, which in the doing will assist to crown college aviation as the Peer of American college sports...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD UNDERGRADUATES PIONEERS IN COMING SPORT | 3/18/1920 | See Source »

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