Word: convert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...electric current is simply a flow of electrons. Last week, before the 124th meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, General Electric announced that it had turned the trick. The device that may change the world's means of making power: a small "thermionic converter" that now turns about 9% of its heat energy into electricity, may eventually convert...
...system are not producing anywhere near their proportion of leaders. Of the 96 U.S. Senators, there are, for example, only ten Catholics; of the 50 so-called business leaders announced by Forbes magazine last month, only two are Catholics, and one of these two, Henry Ford II, is a convert. Even casual observation of the daily newspapers and the weekly news magazines leads a Catholic to ask, where are the Catholic Salks, Oppenheimers, Einsteins...
...uncertain when the University will convert the apartment building to dormitory use, but it is understood that formal arrangements to transfer the properly will be completed in the near future...
...sometimes afraid that by borrowing they commit themselves to immediate repayment. "I would be afraid of a loan program that in effect governed a student's professional planning." McDonald said, advocating that the University maintain in a flexible repayment system based on income tax returns. "We may have to convert some loans to scholarships, after the fact," he added...
...early convert to Islam, Othman ben Affan (A.D. 574-656) has chronicled his own practice of this custom before Mohammed outlawed it. Ben Affan was burying his own daughter alive. As he was covering the child with earth, some dust was thrown up on his beard. The daughter, her arms still free, reached up to wipe the dust from her father's face; he proceeded with the grisly burial. Later, in describing the incident," he said: "It was the only time in my life that I ever shed a tear...