Word: convert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news: liquefied methane gas in pressure tanks. This fuel is obtained by "bottling" natural gas in Italy, Hungary and Denmark, and also as a byproduct in the production of gasoline from coal. Recently Berlin Gasworks Co. prepared to extract methane from the city gas supply, hopes to convert 10% into motor fuel...
Anyone who has spent time and money learning about jazz soon finds that even his best friends can't stand the music he has grown to love. They present to him a solid bulwark of misunderstanding that resists all his efforts to explain, much less convert. Generally this opposition resolves itself into two kinds. One kind says jazz is corny, out of date; you can't dance to it. The other kind says it's transient; you have to think to produce "great" music. The one has been blinded by tastes in popular music; the other has been blinded...
...answer both at once. You can't convert both with the same argument. Aim your argument at the classicist and the popular-addict will accuse you of being high-brow. Aim your argument at the popular-addict and the classicist says, "You still haven't convinced me." Soooo, you go over into a corner and mull and mull. Then someone asks you what you're doing, and you tell him you want to find out a way to convert people to liking jazz. Invariably...
Already many streets of the city no longer exist. Others are pitted with craters or full of crashed bombers. The Germans are trying to convert Stalingrad into an uninhabitable hell...
...study his plans and report back to Donald Nelson. These men-WPB Adviser Grover Loening, Producers Glenn L. Martin, Donald Wills Douglas, John K. Northrop-had not been impressed. They found that Kaiser had no engineers seriously at work on cargo planes, that he did not plan to convert his shipyards, that what he wanted was a Government-built plant where he could turn out a plane designed by the aircraft industry itself...