Word: convert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wheelbarrow and a flying machine," and drove with noisy lurchings into neighbor's hilly oat field. Dogs barked, slaves giggled, small boys guyed as the clumsy juggernaut slewed and jolted through a ragged swath. The owner of the oats called a halt. It took the young inventor months to convert anyone but his family to the reaper...
Since De Valera's Fianna Fail is opposed in principle to accepting any ministry in the cabinet of a regime which they detest and hope to convert into a republic sooner or later observers thought last week that a coalition government headed by Tom Johnson, leader of the Labor Party, would have most chance to supplant President Cosgrave...
Cynthia Rylands is with child. Her discoveries, first of Philip and Puppy Clarges in the bath house, then of Lady Catherine kissing Mr. Sempack, necessitate for her a courageously thoughtful analysis of love, sex and the creative application of energy. Assisted by Mr. Sempack, Cynthia and Philip convert Philip's defection into a beginning of wisdom for her, of action for him. They are closer than ever when he goes to London to correct the capitalistic errors of his collier-uncle...
This he does, with a knife and a small stick. Then, having provided at least one of the natives of Fanua with a divinity, he leaves the island. He is sorry to desert his only convert, but hearing Lueli as he babbles happy confidences into the wooden ear of God, Mr. Fortune decides that he has done the wisest thing...
...touring opera company came to town when he was 12. "'Suppose everybody always sang every-where,' I mused, 'in the streets, in the baths, at the workshops.' The idea charmed me and naturally began to convert everyday life into opera, singing the answers to questions asked me and greeting my friends in song...