Word: convert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Half the Indians in Alaska are reasonably good Episcopalians now, but when Bishop Peter Trimble Rowe was sent out to convert them the territory was still just "Seward's Icebox" and the natives were more impressed by their totem poles than by the cross...
...Group's tobogganing is that publicity-wise Groupers, who for years not only welcomed but pursued the press, have lately avoided reporters like the plague both in Britain and the U.S. Evangelist Buchman, who is now trying to convert Maine to MRA, last week dodged correspondents everywhere he went. MRA has had little luck in Maine since its advent there last June. The general Down East reaction to its smooth, eupeptic preachers: "What's the catch...
Developed by General Electric, the new turbine is the best news of many years to forlorn U.S. powermen, who have long felt marked for ultimate liquidation by the. Federal Government. Steam plants, largely privately owned, produce some 72% of U.S. electricity, convert an average of only 30% of coal's energy into current. Hydroelectric plants convert into current 75 to 90% of the energy of falling water.* Therefore the possibilities of increasing power output and lowering costs are far greater for steam generation than for further hydroelectric development...
...direction of more effective control by the bulk of the people" (away from the Founding Fathers' concept of a republic governed by "the best people"). The people, he says, elected the New Deal "to abolish the theoretical neutrality of the Government as between man and man and to convert it into an instrument in the hands of the masses to be used by them to promote their welfare...
Just how long it would take to convert the Normandie is anybody's guess. Esti mates ran as low as six months...