Word: convert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Physicians and Surgeons (15 medical societies) meeting in Washington, D. C., last week. A pioneer of American bacteriology, he is unimpressed by the elaborate transportation facilities which conduct water from source to faucet. Said Bacteriologist Smith: "The sewage problem is unsolved. All we have done is to convert our water courses into open sewers, with occasional explosive outbreaks of intestinal disease as the result. The time is coming when the intimate relation between water supply and sewage disposal will suddenly develop acute crises in the sanitary affairs of large communities...
...doing the city wide bombing, Chief of Police Hughes could only guess, but doubtless it was some liquor and gambling racketeers who resented having the most criminal city in the U. S. publicized as a sudden convert to law & order. The bombers' technique appeared to derive from a style of bombing inaugurated last autumn by the Chicago Association of Candy Jobbers, whose methodical representatives found little to deter them from pitching "pineapples" (hand grenades) into independent goody factories...
During the last year, more than 32% of U. S. Presbyterian, Methodist, and Baptist churches failed to secure a single convert "by profession of faith." These figures, amply documented, were presented to the Men's Church League last week in Manhattan. If they hold true for other denominations, 60,000 out of the total 200,000 U. S. Protestant churches failed to gain a single convert during 1927. Of the remainder, many gained only one or two. Much perturbed, the League asked itself: "What is the matter with the Churches...
...347° Fahrenheit?more than hot enough to sear human flesh, to cook a potato, to convert water into steam (212° F.); but only half hot enough to melt lead...
Sunday the cause of religion suffered another attack when the forces of the Salvation Army invaded New York's Greenwich Village, to convert the wayward inhabitants. The attacking army consisted of a single old gentleman armed with an umbrella. When the band played "Abide With Me", he refused, and shouting, "I don't believe in religion of any sort," belabored the commanding Major about the head with his weapon. In this instance, the temerity of revivalism in attempting to usurp the place where so many lost causes have died in peace may be criticized. But no one can but commend...