Word: convert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George Marvin Brush was a serious and determined young man. While he traveled his territory (he was a salesman of educational textbooks) he kept his hand in by writing religious mottoes on handy hotel blotters, rebuking girls who smoked, attempting to convert hard-boiled chance acquaintances. He was the strongest man who had ever been to his little sectarian college, and he had an excellent tenor voice, but somehow people did not like George Brush. Although he practically never did a wrong thing he was always getting into trouble, including jail. But his high-principled sincerity usually convinced his detractors...
With the aid of a spectacular last minute goal, the Flying Frenchmen from Mount St. Charles scored a 3-2 victory over the Freshman stickmen last night at the Rhode Island Anditorium in Providence. With two Harvard men in the penalty box. Thurier staged a solo dash to convert the tie into a winning score...
...special cells have been isolated now, although how or why the current is generated still lies in the field of conjecture. A cat, wired to tap the current which results from the stimuli of sound waves, will convert the sound waves into current surges which can be amplified and either photographed or played over a loud-speaker...
Smashing through a bewildered Brown outfit to make four touchdowns and convert all the points, a hard playing Jayvee eleven yesterday chalked up another victory for Harvard...
...rest of their Bonus certificates, without interest, in 1945, but on a full cash settlement in 1934. The Bonus groundswell which set in officially two years ago at the Portland, Ore. convention seemed to reach full tide last week on the silvery shores of Miami. A potent convert to prepayment without "usury" was Hanford MacNider of Iowa, onetime (1921) National Commander, onetime (1925-28) Assistant Secretary of War, onetime (1930-32) Minister to Canada. In Hoover times. Republican MacNider had stoutly battled the Bonuseers but now he owed no political loyalty to the New Deal. However, at the heart...