Word: convert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Algom, unable to wait, moved into Elliot Lake this year, and began building bachelor dormitories for its construction workers, can convert them later into apartments for families. "If uranium proves to be a long-range proposition," said one of Elliot Lake's planners, "we see no reason why this town shouldn't grow to 20,000." For Pronto's executive and professional staff Hirshhorn put up a community of ultramodern ranch houses along the shore of Lake Lauzon...
...American and Coachella Canals) in the Imperial Valley and the Coachella Valley, and for domestic consumption in Los Angeles. As the area grows and demand increases, men will have to find new sources of supply. When that time arrives, area officials hope that scientists will have learned how to convert sea water into fresh water at an economic price...
...evil persons [who] are on the watch to meet them and to drag them down into the depths." This was enough to make any Irishman squirm, but there was worse to come. A pool of Irish missionaries would be sent to England, said the bishops, not to convert the English but to win back the Irish who have gone astray...
...Aoki still bears the dreadful marks of leprosy, but the disease seems to have been arrested. In Airaku-en's chapel he leads hymn singing and teaches Sunday school each week. He watches over Airaku-en like a patriarch, continues to convert its inhabitants to Christianity. Last week he asked the Episcopal Church on behalf of Airaku-en's Christians to establish a worldwide mission to victims of leprosy. By the standards he has set for himself, Aoki regards his life as a heartening success. His proof: although less than 1% of Okinawans are Christian, 34% of Airaku...
...time, the African National Congress, the South African Indian Congress and the South African Colored People's Organization (all Communist infiltrated) sent delegates to sit on the same platform. More important, they sat alongside the Congress of Democrats, a clump of European fellow travelers whose object is to convert the non-white majority of South Africans to Communism...