Word: convert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news that the University was going to convert the Harvard Union to a Freshman Commons hit the Harvard Clubs like a thunderbolt. Throughout the nation, old grads bestirred themselves from leather chairs to telegram protests to the Administration. "If the--whippersnappers have to socialize," wrote one member of the Class of '88, "let them go to Memorial Hall...
Perhaps the biggest problem facing Dole when he took the head coaching position was the lack of experienced ends. Only one veteran--Dick Kelley, who was the second man in the pass-receiving category--returned this season. Dole has been to convert a tackle, Gene Pierce, to right...
...could score in the B.U. game on Wednesday, although the poor heading is the Crimson's worst weakness (only five men are consistently good "in the air," says Munro). Today the same men will start in the forward line as last game, and Munro is hoping they continue to convert the passes into goals--something last year's varsity was chronically unable...
Beer, now at left inside, put Harvard ahead in the middle of the last period when he and center forward Maurice Toro combined to convert a loose ball which dribbled out of a scramble in front of the Jumbo cage into the Crimson's second goal...
...have a house in Whittier, Calif, which cost $13,000, and on which we owe $10,000. My folks are living there at the present time. I have just $4,000 in life insurance, plus my G.I. policy, which I've never been able to convert and which will run out in two years ... I own a 1950 Oldsmobile car. We have our furniture. We have no stocks and bonds of any type. We have no interest of any kind, direct or indirect in any business. I owe $4,500 to the Riggs Bank in Washington...