Word: convert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Longtime pastor of St. Stephen's Church, whose congregation of 25,000 was Manhattan's largest, Priest McGlynn first irritated his superiors by opposing parochial schools. He definitely alarmed them by becoming a convert to Henry George's idea that a Single Tax* would be the world's economic salvation. When Henry George ran for mayor of New York in 1886, Single-Taxer McGlynn campaigned for him "because the triumph of his ideas means the bringing about of conditions under which it will be possible to do God's will on earth...
...cannot reconcile myself to a primary education which equips a child with the Eskimo technique of making a snow-house, but does not teach him how to spell. . . . Man has to earn his intellectual bread by the sweat of his brow. Why should primary education attempt to convert our children into little lotus-eaters...
...plants of certain gases such as ethylene, acetylene, carbon monoxide. These effects in some ways were similar to those produced by the plant hormones. Eastman Kodak Co. was selling a near chemical kin of heteroauxin-indole-3n-propionic acid. The Boyce Thompson chemist thought he might be able to convert one to the other. Before he started, however, Drs. P. W. Zimmerman and A. E. Hitchcock tried out the indole-3n-propionic acid itself. To their unbounded delight, it produced nearly the same phenomena as a plant hormone. Promptly they began experiments with some 30 other likely sub-stances...
...battle for the guard and backfield positions is especially spirited. Cliff Wilson, a burly convert from last year's A team blocking back appears assured of one of the guard posts. In signal drill Russ Allen has been holding down the other, while in the scrimmages, from which Allen will be withheld until about Monday, Bob Downes succeeds Allen. Close behind him is Jee Nee and pressing him is Chuck Klein...
...journalistically as it was politically, the threat of war in Europe was not even considered a contributing factor in the stockmarket's desultory decline. Then the unthinkable happened. In swift succession the great European markets closed their doors, and the selling of an entire world, hysterically trying to convert securities into cash, concentrated on the New York Stock Exchange. Bravely the governors announced their determination to keep open, but on the morning of July 31, after one look at the overnight accumulation of selling orders, they reluctantly reconsidered. For four months the Stock Exchange was shut tight, timidly reopening...