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Word: convert (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spiritual union of the New World's Spanish-speaking countries with Roman Catholic Mother Spain can mankind be saved from godless Communists and heretical Anglo-Saxons. In Argentina, where the Peron regime until recently made much of its close kinship with Spain, the doctrine has won many a convert. But last week, hard on the heels of the failure of Argentina's trade agreement with Spain (TIME, April 25), a distinguished Argentine cleric was calling Hispanidad a lot of nonsense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: French Accent | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...train swung 188 miles up the Mississippi to the sleepy, picturesque town of Louisiana, Mo. There the passengers witnessed the dedication of two plants, developed by the Bureau of Mines at a cost of $15 million, to convert coal into oil. This was the biggest step the U.S. had yet taken to create a synthetic oil industry against the possibility of war or of exhaustion of petroleum reserves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Synthetic | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...Convert. In Huntingdon, Pa., Theological Student Joseph H. Brady Jr. of Juniata College reported the theft of 120 sermons he had written...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 2, 1949 | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...with the air of a man who had stood for such nonsense long enough, President Miguel Alemán announced that his government would spend $88 million in the next two years to overhaul Mexico's railways. His plan (prepared by a special commission appointed last February): 1) convert every line in the country to standard gauge; 2) eliminate the steep grades and kinky turns that cause most wrecks; 3) gradually modernize rolling stock. The President called on his Finance Minister to find the necessary funds, which will probably be raised through new taxation. "The railways," Aleman said flatly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Clear the Track | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...will accept without evasion the severest punishment, even to the extent of being boiled in oil or having my physical self dismembered into many parts as a so-called war criminal . . . Cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party is most urgently required . . . I hope now to convert the hostilities into peace and save the people. My heart is as clear as pure water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: City of Victory | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

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