Word: convert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anthology is rich in attempts of mortal man to express the inexpressibles of religious experience. One of the best is Convert Gilbert Keith Chesterton's The Convert...
...black marketeers to shame. With British car production in low gear and demand in high, many a London dealer was openly selling 1946 models at double the Government ceiling price. The prices were legal because Government ceilings apply only to new cars, and dealers found it easy to convert a new car into a secondhand one. As a Piccadilly salesman explained: "You only have to take a new car out and let the balmy summer breezes play over it a while and there it is- secondhand and wildly out of control...
England's modern John Bunyan is a wise, witty, sad-faced Fellow of Oxford's Magdalen College named Clive Staples Lewis. Like the Inspired Tinker, Anglican Convert Lewis (The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce) writes of the trials and troubles of man's soul in a sinful world; to dramatize his theology he peoples his stories with a menagerie of sprites, devils, and fabulous monsters. Lewis' latest: That Hideous Strength (Macmillan, $3), third volume of a trilogy* begun in 1943. It is loaded with enough spiritual wisdom for a dozen sermons...
After pondering the bids submitted for the $190,000,000 Geneva Steel plant, the War Assets Administration last week decided to sell it to U.S. Steel Corp. Big Steel, which operated Geneva during the war, had offered to pay $47,500,000, spend another $18,600,000 to convert the plant to manufacture types of steel needed by steel-hungry West Coast industries (TIME, May 13). It has also promised to spend $25,000,000 for a new California fabricating plant...
...thousands more. Now the Allied order would eliminate millions more. Pessimists could see the day approaching when Germans would have nothing left to read except perhaps some of Grimm's lighter fairy tales. Cracked one British officer to a U.S. colleague: "You people might yet be able to convert the Germans to your comics...