Word: convert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Acclimated to our IBM-ized society, yearbooks at Harvard are distinguished by serial numbers--321, 322, and now 323. While the Radcliffe yearbooks is a recent convert to the merger trend, it has at least escaped being reduced to a cipher. The new volume is not "80;" it is still The Radcliffe Yearbook...
...Closing Gap. But the big reason for the gold outflow is that Europe's economy has recovered to the point where European countries have enough dollars to convert some of them into gold for their reserves. They are able to do this largely because of their high sales to the U.S. In March, U.S. imports reached an alltime high of $1,300,900,000, or 21% above a year earlier. Exports of $1,441,000 were 6% below last year at the same time. The once huge gap between exports and imports has narrowed so fast that...
...convert Jews, said Protestant Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr to Christian evangelists (TIME, April 21, 1958). Jews may find God more readily in their own faith than in Christianity, he maintains, especially because of the guilt they are likely to feel if they become Christians. Since when, replies Presbyterian Minister George E. Sweazey in this week's Christian Century, should a Christian "inquire into a man's ethnic origins before deciding whether to be concerned about his religious state? Who is my neighbor? If a person in spiritual need is of Hebrew ancestry, shall we pass by on the other...
...Costa Rican, whose democratic bona fides include an action-packed revolution of his own against a Communist-linked coalition in 1948, told 300 veterans of his civil war that honest democrats "want the approval of the people, not of the rabble. I have been where they want to convert the people into a mob and even turn them into cannon fodder for the Soviets. In every American country there exists a Communist nucleus that backs a demagogue's leadership. Demagoguery, No! Communism, No!" Roared the veterans: "Down with Fidel Castro...
Eight Days, by Gabriel Fielding. A Roman Catholic convert is planted under the North African sun and tended with a Greene thumb...