Word: convert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Douglas retaliated by announcing that as soon as McNab vacated the premises Saskatchewan would convert Regina's $110,000 Government House into a home for the aged or for delinquent girls.* Then he had another idea: Let Ottawa instruct Saskatchewan's Chief Justice to perform the Lieutenant Governor's functions...
...movement has grown slowly. Thus far, only about 20 bishops, mostly in the East, have approved its street-corner evangelism. Most Eastern speakers are laymen; in the West they are mostly priests. The pioneer layman is Boston's David Goldstein, a convert from Judaism. Licensed by the late Cardinal O'Connell, he spoke for the first time on Boston Common in 1917. Since then Goldstein, who calls himself "a convert from Marx to Christ," has gone up & down the land expounding his new faith...
...Reed welcomed the fight. He stumped the state, rolling up his sleeves, tearing off his tie, then his collar, as he denounced the League. His arguments struck home. Reporting the campaign, the Kansas City Star's Roy Roberts overheard the remark of a Reed convert: "Well, I guess Jim's right. If there are going to be any furriners in this League of Nations, we'd better stay out." When the returns were in, Jim Reed...
...much has been heard of goofer feathers since the blackface team of Moran & Mack made them colloquially famous in the '20s. But as soon as a serious-minded manufacturer, Food Machinery Corp. of San Jose, Calif., can convert from war to peacetime products, the steady production of goofer feathers will become a main feature of a new U.S. industry. Food Machinery Corp. has designed and plans to market a peach de-fuzzing machine. The fuzz from the peaches, wafted by compressed air through a vent in the top of the machine, will become goofer feathers (to be thrown away...
...began to get nervous about us. ... War contracts were withdrawn. . . . Now all this is changed. Manufacturers back East see the end of the war in sight. Now they say: Let the contracts go West. ... So we're going to keep in war production, while the Eastern boys quickly convert to peace production. By the time we get finished with the war, they'll be fully geared to peace jobs. And what's more, they'll have gained time to step in and capture our Western markets...