Word: convert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Poet Francis Jerringham, a Roman Catholic convert, who is acidly etched by his literary agent as a "Vatican valet" and "Roman meistersinger...
Vittorio De Sica, in his first English language film, has tried to convert a simple emotional conflict into another of his Italian art masterpieces, and he has failed. He has failed because his picture did not include anything more substantial than a few lines of sentimental dialogue and a series of tormented expressions...
...During the conversation on this subject,' the professor says, 'the vice-consul expressed uneasiness when I said that, while I had no idea that the (League) was a Communist organization, I would still have addressed them if I had known it. It appears that in his view, trying to convert them would have been a subversive activity!'" Polyani's speech before the group was severely censured by its secretary as a vicious "attack on Soviet scientists...
...worked his passage to California, got a job sorting fruit, began studying at Berkeley. During eight years in the U.S., he studied science and economics at five universities, worked as a farm laborer, factory hand, restaurant waiter, and nearly starved between times. At Wisconsin, an American professor helped convert the earnest young Indian to Marxism, and he went back to India snorting for action...
Turning the sun's energy directly into electricity has long been a goal of scientists. In Washington last week, the Bell Telephone Laboratories demonstrated a solar battery which can convert sunlight into usable electric current without costly intermediate steps...