Word: convert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During a two-year period, 30 three-column, ten-inch ads drew 6,726 requests for the course. Of these, says Father Fitzgerald, 248 people either joined the Roman Catholic Church or began personal instruction with a priest. The cost to the Paulists: slightly less than $40 a convert, which, compared with the "colossal" cost of operating a parochial school, "brings out very well the reasonableness of educating . . . people in the Catholic religion through the Correspondence Home Study Course." Indeed, writes Father Fitzgerald, the combination of newspaper ads and home study has proved itself "perhaps the chief means today...
...Danes soon after her arrival when she invited all the plasterers, painters and carpenters who had redecorated her official residence to the housewarming. The more complex diplomatic chores are carried out by her staff of career men, but Eugenie Anderson does a fine job of public relations, and helped convert the Danes from neutrality to alignment with the West...
Canadians may now spend their money anywhere-to travel, to buy & sell, to invest in stocks and private businesses in the U.S., in French champagne, Brazilian coffee or Russian caviar. Canadian businessmen can trade their goods in any country and convert foreign currency at home. Foreign investors, whose prewar investments have been frozen in Canada, can now get them...
...boredom after possessing them, but through fear of being possessed. Shaw's Juan is nine parts Puritan to one part libertine, and for him Heaven means hard work, not golden harps. There the Life Force, that instrument of man's purposeful striving, will carry him higher & higher, convert him into superman. Shaw's Heaven, far from being a blissful goal, would seem a mere way station on the road to perfection-as his Life Force, magnificent so long as it is an evolutionary process, would seem to end as pure intelligence functioning in an utter void...
...first formal relations between the U.S. and the Vatican were established in 1848, when President James Polk sent Jacob L. Martin, a convert to Catholicism, to Rome as charge d'affaires. At that time the Papal States controlled 16,000 square miles, compared to the Vatican's present 108.8 acres. Twenty years later, the diplomatic era which began with Jacob Martin came to an abrupt halt. Because of Protestant criticism of the mission, Congress cut off the funds, and Resident Minister Rufus King * came home from Rome...