Word: convert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...procession of the Lord was marching through Sheffield, England. At its head was a brass band blaring hymns from atop a wagon; next, on a white horse, came the onetime champion wrestler of Northumberland, now a convert to God. After him in a carriage rode the Generals William and Catherine Booth, and behind marched the uniformed soldiers of their Salvation Army. Then the Devil attacked...
...maternal grandmother became a convert to the army when bearded, Godfearing General Booth was shocking England with his evangelism. Her daughter Mary Ivison was also a convert who met and fell in love with Joseph Pugmire, another Salvationist. Joseph was sent to plant the army's blue-bordered, blood-red flag in Kansas City, Mo., and Mary later followed and married...
Kurth's fondest dream was to convert Southern yellow pine, not good for finished building purposes, into newsprint. Not until the mid-'30s when a method of controlling the pitch content in pine pulp was discovered, was he convinced that it could be done. Then he had to spend five years convincing other Texans. After Kurth raised $2,689,684, including more than $400,000 from 25 newspapers, RFC lent him $3,425,000. He had hardly started to make newsprint when the war cut off his supply of chemically made pulp. With additional private loans and another...
...York Clinician Ernst P. Boas loosed a blast for the Physicians' Forum, which favors the Fair Deal's national health plan. The dues levy, said he, "is against the interests of a majority of Americans, who need a national prepayment system of medical care ... It will convert the professional organization of America's physicians into a political lobby...
Davenport's two platoon system and crashing line blanked Winthrop 12 to 0 today. The Davenport squad mixed T plays and a fast single-wing attack to beat the Puritans. The first score came on a pass and lateral in the first period; Yale failed to convert. The Puritans replied with a flock of passes, but the Davenport line broke up the attack, and intercepted a Puritan throw late in the second quarter to set up its second score...