Word: convert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...process* jasper by a new method. Last week Cleveland-Cliffs and Inland Steel Co. announced that they will build, near Marquette, Mich., the nation's first big jasper-mining and processing project. At peak production the Marquette plants will grind some 6,000,000 tons of jasper yearly, convert it into 3,000,000 tons of walnut-sized pellets that contain 60% iron...
Diabetes is a complex disorder in which the body cannot convert as much sugar into energy as it should because for this purpose it needs insulin, produced in the pancreas. In the diabetic, the pancreas may not produce enough insulin. Or, according to Pittsburgh University's Dr. I. Arthur Mirsky, it may produce enough, only to have it destroyed by insulinase, an enzyme made by the liver. Injections of insulin, which have prolonged and saved countless lives for 33 years, simply supply outside insulin. A more logical treatment, Dr. Mirsky thinks, would be to block the insulinase. Both...
Novelist Shaplen's setting is authentic. His Saigon is hot, and more oppressive than the heat is the sense of deceit, mistrust and danger. Communist terrorists hurl grenades into cafés in broad daylight. Harmless-looking old shopkeepers convert their shabby little stores into arms depots for Communist agents. A Chinese gambling-house operator runs weapons to the enemy. Counterespionage is apt at any time to burgeon into counter-counterespionage. At this game Adam Patch is about as subtle as a sand-lot quarterback. A Vietnamese doctor shows up, claiming to be a deserter from the Communists, with...
...proves a success, Rock Island will eventually convert entirely to lightweight trains. Said President Downing B. Jenks: "We think the train will prove so economical to buy and operate that we'll be able to reduce fares while giving better service...
...must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling . . . the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet ... I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the x/rost dejected and reluctant convert in all England. I did not then see . . . the Divine humility which will accept a convert even on such terms ... a prodigal who is brought in kicking, struggling, resentful . . . The words com-pelle intrare, compel them to come in ... plumb the depth of the Divine mercy. The hardness...