Word: convert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...amendment would convert the Senate into an operations section of the General Staff," Lodge protested, "something for which the Senate is not fitted either by training or experience or by its ability to act with secrecy and dispatch...
...decision to adhere to the regular academic schedule is in line with the policy outlined by Dean David December 11, when he said the Business School would carry on as usual and that no plans were being made to convert it to a military training center...
...more to learn about the wide world. Some of it he learns with pain and dismay from Professor Lorenzo Lundsgard, lately of Hollywood. A new, if feebler, edition of that pious fraud, Elmer Gantry, with a touch of Berzelius Windrip, the magnificent Lorenzo plans a Technicolored crusade to convert America to the gospels of Culture and Leadership, meanwhile scooting across Europe and sweeping up historical tidbits as with a vacuum cleaner. Lorenzo also sweeps up Olivia. Hayden falls into the eager arms of Roxy Eldritch, a freckled, redheaded home-town girl with a pert tongue, a figure that...
...convert from football essentially has to forget all that he has learned. There is no interference in rugby, no blocking no time-outs, and no forward passing-only laterals. Points are scored by running the ball over the goal line or by drop kicking through a football-style goal post...
...conscience was troubled. His adventurer's gusto had always been tempered by suffering and a sense of sin. At just that time the body of St. Francis Xavier was brought to Goa. Xavier had died on a lonely island while on his way to China to convert the Chinese. Profoundly moved, Pinto became a novice in Xavier's order, the Society of Jesus, and determined to return and convert the Japanese. It took two years to get back to Japan, and there his ardor cooled. He shrewdly sensed that a mass conversion was impossible. Furthermore, he had dreamed...