Word: convert
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Layman and Lay Reader. Britons knew Sir Richard as a Liberal M.P. who had founded, with J. B. Priestley, the shortlived, socialist Common Wealth Party, later resigned to join the Labor Party. Sir Richard, who describes himself as "a recent convert" to Anglicanism, now serves as lay reader* in his village church near Exeter. He believes that his Mirror column may enable him to cover the field of applied Christianity in "20 or 30 articles," happily anticipates some hot controversy over such questions as whether Jonah ever really lived in the whale. Says he: "I hope we shall be interrupted...
...converted to Christianity while studying at Shanghai's Methodist mission school in 1918. At first he was devout, but, says he: "Gradually my religious zeal ebbed because of conflict within the Methodist Church between fundamentalists and modernists. I myself couldn't make up my mind. . . ." But when the Generalissimo was delivered from Kidnaper Chang Hsueh-liang in 1936, Convert Wu considered it a "miracle," began to study religion once again. "I discovered that, for myself, fundamentalism wasn't fundamental enough, modernism wasn't modern enough. In 1937 I was admitted into the Catholic Church...
...people of the Southern States are extremely susceptible to Fascist doctrines; they show a strong liking for Fascist methods and violence. I do not believe a great deal of time and effort would need to be expended to convert a majority of these people to the Fascist faith. This having occurred, what then might not befall America...
...check with the New Hampshire Liquor Authority showed that rum moves much better in that state, and has ever since Elizar Wheelock of Dartmouth College went out to convert the Indians with one thousand gallons of it. Yale tastes, according to New Haven grocers, run from tomato to jungle juice...
...permutations thereof were just a little too much for the sailors. The two players hit pay-dirt twice on their own. In the opening minutes of play the Chief Boston equivalent of Tinker to Evers was uncorked for the first tally. Bucky Harrison's cold toe failed to convert, but it warmed to its work on the next three...