Word: convert
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American Methods. The Paulists' first century began with little more than Isaac Thomas Hecker's burning conviction that he, the son of German immigrants and a convert from Protestantism, was called to make new converts among the new people of a new country. He and his four companions-all converts and one (Father George Deshon) a West Point graduate-set about the task by making his society as American as they could...
Aeroflot expects to convert completely to jets and turboprops by 1960, phase out the 800 to 1,000 two-engined Ilyushins (opposite number to the DC-3) that are its bread-and-lard planes. Thus, in less than three years, Aeroflot hopes to leap from the primitive, twin-engined piston stage into the four-jet age, without carefully rolling up experience on larger piston planes as Western lines have done...
...situation McElroy found in the U.S. military establishment. Wilson's five-year tenure covered half the life span of the Defense Department, and his heavy thumb left the biggest print. When Wilson came to Washington the Korean war was about over, and his first big job was to convert to the long-haul New Look. He cut manpower, substituted the firepower of increasingly plentiful nuclear weapons, and it is Charlie Wilson's monument that he maintained an effective force-in-being that kept the peace for five rough years...
President Spyros Skouras also an nounced a plan that he hopes will make a big chunk of money for Fox in the future.Fox plans to convert a large part of its wide-open, 284-acre West Los Angeles production lot into a "Century City" with more than a score of skyscrapers and apartment towers. The project would eventually cost $300 million, bring a net income of as much as $36 million a year...
...great advantage of the system: it can use heat from any source. Eventually, it may be possible to convert the sun's heat directly into electricity, power spaceships by solar energy. Says Dr. Guy Suits, G.E. vice president and director of research: "Right now we think our converter is significant to science. If we can increase its efficiency, it will be fundamentally significant to technology...