Word: convert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brought in $8,400 in cash and fines. That "the agents kept up the price of liquor. Their extortions, their free drinks and free meals forced the ordinary customer to pay twice what he should have paid for liquor." That salvation in Manhattan is expensive: "The cost of making converts in the foreign mission field . . . comes to about $260 a head. . . . In wicked New York the average cost of making a convert is placed by the most optimistic statistician at $660, and other experts who have tried to figure it out say that $1,500 would be more nearly...
...three Chicago architects considered Milwaukee's greatest architectural monuments. Shepherding the Pilgrims round the gallery was a Milwaukee architect, Alexander Carl Guth, who was expected to say a few words of appreciation. Alexander C. Guth. secretary of the Wisconsin chapter of the American Institute of Architects, recent ardent convert to modernism, said a few words to set Milwaukee conservatives' hair acurl. Excerpts...
...called and few chosen." Outside of History 1 it is not willing to separate the honors students from "the dumb bunnies," the scholars from the social lions and athletes. Thus it will not become an institution for training intellectuals. It insists on catering to the masses; it hopes to convert them; and it will maintain the present mark system as long as it is the only one which permits the traditional homogeneity of the student body to be treated as an actuality...
...same time George Comfort was promoted from the Jayvees to the Varsity for his good playing in Monday's scrimmage. Comfort, who played on last year's Freshman outfit, has been in the Jayvee backfield so far this season, but Casey plans to convert him into a guard or tackle. He was started at right tackle on "C" team in today's scrimmage...
...were swamped. It is not worth butchering hogs that weigh less than 80 lb. Since the average weight of the hogs received was only 60 lb. not many of them could be made into pork for distribution to the unemployed. It had been planned to "tank" the smaller hogs: convert them into grease, byproducts and "tankage" (fertilizer). When the tanking equipment of the St. Louis stockyards was completely overwhelmed by piglets, the Farm Administration gave orders to salvage only grease (about 8% of pigs by weight). Last week the remainder of the piglets-which represented over half what the government...