Word: convert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week Costa Rica's President, handsome, large-nosed Leon Cortes Castro, did the unusual. He squelched the suggestion of his supporters that he ignore the Constitution and succeed himself in office when his first four-year term expires in May 1940. Said President Cortes: "I will never . . . convert myself into a tyrant...
...crude oil's heavy molecules into lighter components by great pressure and heat. This process yields only 44% gasoline (the money-making product), leaves refiners with a great bulk of fuel oil and other by-products to dispose of. Phillips Petroleum Co. has lately found a way to convert some of these by-products into gasoline-through polymerization, which compresses wasted gaseous fractions of crude oil into the heavier molecules of gasoline...
...that he has movies proving everything he says. There go those movies again. Wonder if he made the discovery while the play was happening or after he saw the films. Anyway, movies show a lot of things. For instance, the Yale line was offside on Struck's failure to convert a point after touchdown in the 1936 Yale game lost by Harvard 14-13. How about playing both games over...
...plans to convert its experiments into a regular program service in April, has not yet put any television receivers on public sale...
...Europe it was once common to convert whole peoples, by main force, from one Christian faith to another, on the historic principle of Cuius regio, eius religio ("whose rule, his religion"). Long in disuse, this principle was last week once again being honored in eastern Europe. The rule was Poland's, the religion, Roman Catholicism. Or so it was loudly and plausibly charged by those who were undergoing the "conversion"-7,000,000 Ukrainians in southeastern Poland...