Word: convert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small, this was the story of business in 1945. Not all reconversion could proceed so swiftly or dramatically. In some plants it was the work of weeks, in others the work of months. For all business that had to convert, it was a period of upheaval, like the period of conversion to war. But there was a difference...
...tough-guy convert to Hamlet, on opening night was Producer Todd's great friend Toots Shor, whose Manhattan restaurant is the sports world's second home. Toots's tribute: "it's real cops-&-robbers stuff, with class." And during the intermission, according to Columnist Earl Wilson, Toots remarked: "I'm the only bum in the audience that's going back in just to see how it comes...
Here & there a city got to work. Example: Newark planned 300 temporary houses (needed: 7,000). Here & there a voice spoke out in alarm: Sociologist Louis Wirth, chairman of an emergency Chicago housing committee, prepared a careful report urging the city to convert factories, office buildings and war plants into makeshift shelter. But mostly the problem was just talked about...
...whatever proportion of his effort he thinks necessary to getting the highest possible marks before he concerns himself with tutorial. Yet since the whole value of tutorial as a special method of instruction lies in its flexibility and in the avoidance of marked quizzes and exams, we must not convert it into another course by applying course ratings...
...Convert Budenz, whose excellent record as a labor organizer includes 21 arrests, issued a statement that sounded like a long sigh of relief: "Reason and faith have led to this happy step. . . . The privilege of returning to the sacraments is one to be deeply prized; it is, after a long journey, the true returning home...