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Word: convert (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kirkland scored first near the end of the first quarter, when Jerry Hall intercepted a Bunny pass and carried the ball to the one yard line. Earl Foster plunged over for the point but the Deacons failed to convert...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Puritans Snatch 2-0 Win From Lowell; Kirkland Overcomes Bunny Team 12-0 | 10/7/1939 | See Source »

Truly international, the Army uses native-born recruits whenever possible. Another source of Army strength, which shocked the Victorians, is that women have absolute parity of privilege, position and dignity. Militant is the Army's terminology. A convert is a "prisoner of war," a service "company meeting," a Salvationist's death "promotion to Glory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Democrat for Autocrat | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

There were no bones, no ashes: somehow the king had missed his boat. Since King Raedwald was a Christian convert, archeologists surmised that when he died in the year 617 he let his body be interred with Christian rites. But to be doubly sure that he would reach a safe harbor, his pagan subjects launched the funeral ship, let it sail without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Outward Bound | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

Then Cinemactress West suggested as a likely convert to MRA her coming costar, raffish W. C. Fields. "Give it to him in a bottle and he'll go for it," she told Dr. Buchman, promised, "If you reform Bill I'll let him win me in our next picture." But raucous, red-nosed Bill Fields proved recalcitrant. Said he: "I'll take anything in a bottle. But I don't need re-armament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 28, 1939 | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

Last week the fly boats made their last trip, as tugs towed them upriver where purchasers waited to convert them into houseboats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Flies' End | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

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