Word: convert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years). The male, bewildered by all this fecundity, crawls about Her Majesty's belly performing his time-honored functions. . . . Nor will the colony die if the queen dies. In a manner still an entomological mystery, the workers of the termites can take one of the winged species and convert her into a substitute queen...
...Christianity's future in his country, smiling convert Wei is an optimist, though a long-range one. "I have no hope," he says, "of China becoming Christian within a century. At present, only half of 1% of the Chinese population is nominally Christian, and only a tenth of 1% is Protestant...
Within a few months the many civilian students who departed for war were being replaced by personnel enrolled in newly established Army-Navy schools. With only two dissenting votes, the Faculty agreed to the president's suggestion to convert to a tri-semester basis in order to conform to the demands of the armed forces...
...Wyatt order places the building industry under stricter supervision than it had in wartime. It means considerable hardship for contractors who are not experienced at handling small jobs, and for steam-shovel operators, steelworkers and other workmen who cannot readily convert to housebuilding...
From Chicago the American Medical Association's Dr. Morris Fishbein added: "A nation which fought successfully against totalitarianism now proposes to enslave its medical profession . . . thus convert its physicians into clock-watching civil servants." If the bill passes, Dr. Fishbein prophesied direly: "The medical profession in Great Britain will lose the respect the rest of the world has always had for it, for it would be sure to result in deterioration of England's medical practice...