Word: convert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seconds by virtue of Len Schmidt's looping one hander. John Brusman scored first for the Funsters in the three minute overtime, but Steve Busck came back for the Navy with a hard driving lay-up. Then Ed Silberling, who sparked the victory with ten points, proceeded to convert two out of three foul shots, tipping the game and the championship to Dunster...
...Passed authorization for $250,000,000 more to convert wartime housing to veterans' needs(the total...
...Blake wrote the Marriage of Heaven and Hell. ...I have written of their divorce." Thus ruddy, balding British Author Clive S. Lewis (The Screwtape Letters, etc.), a convert (1930) from well-bred skepticism to the Church of England, explains the purpose of his new book, The Great Divorce (MacMillan...
During the war the U.S. had been able to use its grain "wastefully," i.e., convert it into meat instead of feeding it directly to humans, because of its vast stockpiles. Now that the piles were depleted, the U.S. could no longer afford such waste. If the U.S. meant business, it would have to take drastic measures to cut down on its vast numbers of pigs, cattle and chickens, no matter how profitable they are to farmers. But Clint Anderson, too well aware of the powerful farm bloc, plainly hoped that the grain could somehow be found painlessly...
...Three Apostles. But generally the hospital plans were financially sound, and as they grew they prospered-thanks largely to three men. In St. Paul, a onetime schoolteacher named E. A. Van Steenwyk became a rampaging apostle of voluntary hospital insurance, tried to convert everyone he met, from elevator boys to bishops. By 1936 he had bullyragged 200,000 Twin Citizens into signing up. He went on to Philadelphia, became Blue Cross's model organizer...