Word: convert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tigers scored early in the game, recovering a Crimson fumble behind the goal line for a three point try. They were unable to convert. Just before the end of the half Hol French knotted the score with a 40-feet dropkick on a penalty shot...
When he has pledged all of India to his atomic vows, Tulsi Ramji plans to convert the rest of the world...
...hard-fought, 5 to 3 decision to a heavily favored Eli team, the Crimson showed its best passing and defense. Travis sparked an aggressive line which consistently beat Yale to the ball in the first half. Early in the game the Crimson scored a try but were unable to convert...
...most distinguished calumnist Mr. Bill Cunningham. The energy of that sporting publicist was devoted to the task of besmirching the memory of a distinguished scholar, inspiring teacher, and man of unflinching honor, Professor Matthiessen. Mr. Cunningham with his customary delicacy of style and feeling saw fit to convert personal tragedy into political comedy. It was one of those days on which his brutality got the better of his sentimentality. Perhaps he set out deliberately to violate every standard of human decency. More probably he seized instinctively upon a tragic occasion to establish the fact that he does not know what...
Nobody claimed that the Geer tube was anywhere near perfect. But when & if perfected, the tube, Geer said, would make it easy to 1) convert existing TV sets to color, and 2) manufacture color television sets for less than the current prices of black & white receivers. The day after all this optimistic talk, Technicolor stock jumped 3¼ points...