Word: convert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must not fail," he told them passionately. "We cannot fail. The free way of life is at stake. . . . See people, convert them, take them to the polls. We must win. People ask me, can you take it? I can take it forever. There is no personal sacrifice I would not make to prevail in this struggle. Do not be afraid. Be soldiers unafraid in the fight for justice. America would not be the land of the free if it were not also the home of the brave...
From Tunbridge Wells, England, wrote F. D. Newman, 68, great-nephew of England's late, great Catholic Convert John Henry Cardinal Newman, to Manhattan's American Committee for Defense of British Homes, asking for: "a gun or some standard but powerful automatic or machine gun, which one man can handle in defense of his home. I can shoot from the hip with a revolver in each hand at once...
...France of 1848 they had good reason to. The earlier socialists, Saint-Simon, Robert Owen, Fourier, were really trying to create a more Christian life. With their socialist communities, workshops and phalansteries, they hoped to convert the world by good example. Most of the good examples came to life in the U. S., usually died a quick death, sometimes lingered like the Oneida Community or the Fourierist phalanstery near Red Bank, N. J. There the remnants of transcendental Brook Farm migrated. There Author Alexander Woollcott was born...
...star is near enough to earth for its image to appear in the telescope as a disc (as do the images of solar planets). If it were not for atmospheric diffusion and imperfections of the instrument, which convert star images into undulant blobs, they would appear in the telescope as sharp pinpoints of light...
...explosions. Sometimes bloody fluid trickled from their noses and mouths. Examination of the lungs showed hemorrhages, pleural lesion or collapse. Recently Dr. Zuckerman undertook for the Ministry of Home Security a series of experiments on pressure waves from explosions and the effect on lungs. Using piezoelectric recorders (crystals which convert pressure into electric current), he found that the blast from 125 lb. of high explosive builds up a pressure of 200 lb. per square inch at a distance of 15 ft., falling off to only 10 lb. at 50 ft. Dr. Zuckerman exploded uniform 70-lb. charges...