Word: convert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the '43 revolution, the National Agrarian Council has bought or expropriated an unexciting 850,000 acres to convert into model colonies for small farmers. But Perón dreams of a Greater Argentina, peopled by perhaps twice Argentina's present 14,000,000 population. He knows that freeholders are better builders and fighters than serfs. Neither worried latifundistas (great landowners) nor hopeful socialists really know how far he would...
...Jesus she wrote in the mystic's language of love: "I feel myself consuming with love for You, and this is a great torture to me, a slow martyrdom at not being able to do something for You. . . . Convert me, Jesus, convert me completely to Yourself, for if You do not make me a saint, I will not know how to work in Your vineyard and will end by betraying Your interests, instead of rendering them successful...
However, the great majority of these citizens proffer their support only to be discouraged and subsequently defeated in their purpose by laws of zoning and egression, labor difficulties, and shortage of materials. For example, an owner may wish to convert their attics or third stories into living accommodations. The owner soon discovers that, by law, he may place his own family or servants in these quarters; but, when renting them to others, he finds they must have two means of egression. Thus he must either deface his home with an exterior fire escape or else remodel his whole house...
...that the job be given the film service. Together, Roulon and Barclay framed the equipment with which they were able to produce the extremely accurate track. Since they had no priority on materials, their resourcefulness was occasionally called upon as a substitute, such as the time they had to convert an old projector into a camera or make their own counter when they were unable to buy a hand counter...
...Marriage of Inconvenience. Campion, as a young Oxford scholar, pleased the great Queen Elizabeth by his Latin and his charm. He might have enjoyed a rich career in the newly established Church of England. Campion chose Rome and danger. He found it improbable, his biographer says with an English convert's zeal, "that the truth, hidden from the world for fifteen centuries, had suddenly been revealed in the last few years to a group of important Englishmen...