Word: convert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wing Sherm Saltmorsh slammed a long screen shot past Brad Richardson at 6:07 of the third period. A few seconds later, B.C. got its first penalty of the night, but the Crimson failed to convert, mainly because it, too, got a penalty immediately alterward...
Cattle & Metals. Whenever a town wanted to convert such a thing as a surplus military airport into an industrial site, or reorganize its chamber of commerce, or put up a building for a Northern industry, Ham Moses was there with the know-how-and often some Arkansas Power & Light funds. By such tactics, Arkansas snagged $854 million in new plants since World War II, including light metals, petrochemicals, and a growing timber and cattle business...
...spotlighted auction ring for a notable equine event. On the block was the first lot of thoroughbreds from Cinemogul Louis B. Mayer's famed stable. As the sale began, L.B. jokingly whispered in the ear of Announcer Humphrey S. Finney: "I found Clark Gable as an extra and converted him into the biggest thing in pictures. Now I'm going to convert Finney into the biggest salesman in the horse business...
Gonzélez did not try to convert his rough-walled cavern into a conventional church interior. At the inner end of the parallel tunnels, where the final cross.-shaft formed an end wall, he mined out an apse -a rounded cave in line with the nave. He paved the innermost 150 ft. of the nave and aisles, wainscoted the wall and pillars in brick or limestone...
Stockwell passed the Reds' course for counterrevolutionaries: he "confessed" to his sins. He was released on Nov. 17 at the Hong Kong border. Some of his captors thought they had made a convert. Missionary Stockwell, weakened by his captivity but still unconverted, plans to continue his work elsewhere in the Orient, after a year's sabbatical...