Word: convert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tallying for the first time in over two years on a long pass from Fullerton to Doyle, the Brooks House eleven eked out a tie with Winthrop yesterday afternoon, just as dusk was falling over Soldiers Field. An attempt to convert the extra point by a line buck was stopped by inches. After the kickoff there were three play before the game ended, all passes, and all intercepted in the gathering gloom...
Another thing, the state of Mississippi has always been traditionally a dry state, but when the whiskey trust of America, decided to convert the U. S. into a vast barroom, and brothel to drag down the masses to a state of degeneracy, the wets of Mississippi, conceived and tried to pass the most eniquitous piece of whiskey legislation ever offered as an insult to the intelligence of a moral and spiritual-minded people...
...past. Diesel power is far cheaper than electricity. With electricity, if the power plant breaks down, nothing moves, but with Diesel power the railways are absolutely independent. Why, Diesel trains are so light that we could start new railroads at less investment than would be necessary to convert old ones...
...carry out the prime purpose of the Silver Purchases Act, which is to convert 25% of U. . S. monetary reserves into silver, the Treasury will have to buy 1,254,000,000 oz. of silver-about one tenth of the world's supply. Secretary Morgenthau has announced that he will "enthusiastically" carry out the purpose of the Act-but no time limit for its execution is set. Against silver purchases the Government at present will issue certificates equal to the price paid for the metal. For its purchases so far the Federal Government has paid an average...
...Eminence Patrick Cardinal Hayes, to whom Pietro Yon had dedicated his oratorio, sat in a box and listened raptly while Tenor Frederick Jagel, the Saint of the evening, sang first as a shepherd boy, then as the man whom God had appointed to defeat the heathenish Druids and convert all Ireland. Outstanding was the rich ecclesiastical background given by 60 Cathedral choristers. Sixty players from the Metropolitan Opera orchestra traced melodies so lush and curving that they might have come from a Puccini opera...