Word: convert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Keep the Home Fires Burning. Many historians agree that Germany was not defeated militarily in World War I until her home front began to collapse; and that the internal collapse came because the Army tried to convert everything to military use. Russia's present military strength is credited to the Soviet ability to preserve a minimum but healthy civilian economy behind the lines...
...declaration of faith of Christendom's most famed living convert was made public last week by the Methodist Church. Chiang Kai-shek had written it in 1937, shortly after his capture and release by his Sian kidnappers...
...experiment is a success, it may be that private owners will follow the example set by the Housing Office and convert unoccupied buildings into quarters for the families of the trainees...
...experiment is a success, it may be that private owners will follow the example set by the Housing Office and convert unoccupied buildings into quarters for the families of the trainees...
...other merchants lying awake nights wondering how they too can stay in business as their stocks dwindle, the grocers' variety-store plans have an ominous ring. If food stores convert to the traditional general-store type of merchandise, consumers may concentrate their buying where they must go for their essential foods anyway. This may mean fewer shopping trips to druggists, dry goods and hardware stores...