Word: convert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strategy paid off with 52 of the 100 Bürgerschaft (city-state parliament) seats for Kaisen's Socialists, a gain of six and a clear majority for the first time. Christian Democrats were held to 18 seats. The election entitled Bürgermeister Kaisen to convert Bremen's coalition government into a wholly Socialist affair, but instead he invited Christian Democrats and Free Democrats, their right-wing cousins, to go right on helping him run Bremen...
Christians have done their best and worst to convert the Jews, with a range of persuasions running from sweet reasonableness to slow torture. The Jews, on the other hand, seem to have no missionary zeal. It was not always thus; Jesus described the Pharisees as crossing "sea and land to make one proselyte," and one Maccabean king, John Hyrcanus I (135-104 B.C.), even compelled the conquered Idumeans to become Jews and undergo circumcision. But in the main, Judaism has been the religion of one people, its heart being the covenant between God and Israel. Some day, according...
...reform group. Yet these, says Rabbi Petuchowski, have precisely the least to offer. "The orthodox Jew could conceivably enter the arena with the Creed of Maimonides in one hand and the Shulchan Aruch [a codification of Jewish law] in the other. He could say to the prospective convert: 'Here is a new way of living. Take it!' And then the convert would really have taken something; he would not merely be moving from one 'branch' of universal religion to another. But ... if the prospective convert is confronted with a statement that leaves it an open question...
...parking facilities around the Square, and no one there is looking very hard to find any. Martin, in his campaign platform, advocates seeking federal funds to build a bomb shelter under the Cambridge Common. Once safely nestled near the bowels of Radcliffe's downtown campus, Martin would then slyly convert the shelter into a parking garage...
...important as it was, however, to history concentrators, Taylor agrees that its successor under Gen Ed, Social Sciences 1, has succeeded ing provoking important ideas as well as providing facts, and in improving teaching methods. "I appreciate extremely the opportunity to convert History 1 to Social Sciences 1. I, and I think the staff, have enjoyed it much more, and felt that we have been giving a much better article for both concentrator and non-concentrator...