Word: convert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Certain Comfort. When he entered the priesthood 30-odd years ago, Father Rosi joined a missionary order noted for its work among the Papuan Islanders-the Congregation du Sacré-Coeur d'lssoudun. But instead of sending him forth to convert the heathen, his superiors appointed him mathematics professor at the order's Collège de Thoissey, of which he eventually became director...
...part of last September's deal, Ambassador Whitney got an option to convert his original loan into stock. By exercising the option, says McCrary, and investing another $2,000,000 in the company, Whitney can get 60% control. An estimated $2,000,000 more will be needed to pay off debts and put the Trib on a sound operating basis. McCrary is certain Whitney will buy in ("Jock's a stayer"). But Reid shrugged off questions with "You'll have to ask Mr. Whitney." and in London, Whitney would say only: "My interest in the Herald Tribune...
...research problem was complicated by a marketing problem: how to convert the public to stereo gradually so as not to endanger the fortune the industry already has invested in monaural LPs. There were two possible ways. One was to develop a cartridge and stylus that would play both straight monaural records and stereo records. The other way-Columbia's-was to develop a stereo record that would sound good with the standard monaural pickup and could also be used when the owner got around to buying stereo sound gear...
...machine-tool order to help speed Argentine industrialization. In turn, Adolfo enthusiastically allowed Peron three years to pay. A year later, when Peron was ousted, Argentina had paid only a fraction of its bill, all in wheat to the Italian government, which has yet to convert it into cash for Maserati. To top it off, Adolfo took on another $437,500 machine-tool order from the Spanish government-which has also failed to pay. Result: the Orsis owe subcontractors some...
...green-bearded, triple-bellied inhabitant of outer space? In the Christian Herald, theology-centered Author C. S. (The Screwtape Letters) Lewis weighs the question, points out that it might challenge a basic tenet of Christianity-man's uniqueness. Inveterate Theologian Lewis, a Cambridge professor of literature and a convert (1930) from well-bred skepticism to the Church of England, states the problem thus: "If we find ourselves to be but one among a million races, scattered through a million spheres, how can we, without absurd arrogance, believe ourselves to have been uniquely favored...