Word: convert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John H. Finley '25, Master of Eliot House, suggested that the Houses should provide adequate offices for their present non-resident tutors, rather than increasing their number. "When the Leverett towers are built and the present Houses have a little more room, we ought to convert some present student suites into offices for our non-resident staff," he explained...
...original Eisenhower Cabinet,* Massachusetts Manufacturer Sinclair Weeks was a voice of oldfashioned, pre-Eisenhower Republicanism. But he grew in the job. A deep-dyed member of the old school that considered tariff protectionism a fundamental GOPrinciple, he became Washington's most improbable convert to freer trade, led this year's winning Administration fight to wring a broadened reciprocal-trade bill out of a reluctant Congress...
...return to his family, to confess to his own guilty crime while absent and then to smoke out the atmosphere of crime and guilt that haunted his childhood, is charged with ominous Aeschylean echoes. The Greek Furies themselves still hunt the criminal down, until he is able to convert an Orestes-like fleeing from doom into a Christian pursuit of salvation. Against this search for light are placed things blind and self-centered in contemporary life-a mother's passionate willfulness, a smug family's hush-hush gentility...
...Case of Dr. Laurent (French). A baby is born on-camera in the final scene, but far earlier than that, Jean Gabin, as a kindly rural doctor, and Nicole Courcel, as his first natural-childbirth convert, have given the film warm, memorable appeal...
After evaluating the progress of Dudley's 30 "resident commuters" at 3 Sacramento Street, the Administration will decide whether to convert another home. Dean Leighton pointed out that such a structure could be ready for use next fall if a suitable residence can be found...