Word: convert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Pilkington informed customers of another advance: it can now make tinted glass by the same float process with considerable savings in time and capital expense. Up to now, when glassmakers wanted to produce tints-even with a float process-they either had to shut down and convert regular lines or else build an additional plant. Under the new method, which cost $2.8 million to research and perfect, machines bombard the molten glass with microscopic metallic particles as it passes across the tin bath. With an investment of only $36,000, glassmakers can add the tinting process...
...then fat income of ?900 a year from his speculator father, and had acquired an enthusiasm for medieval art. In college, he became friends with "Ned" Burne-Jones; together they doted on every moldy pre-Renaissance stone in the place and, for a while, considered following the celebrated Catholic convert John Henry Newman. They and their friends called themselves a "brotherhood," forerunner of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood of painters...
...sums his mother earned by baking pastries at home, enabled them to eke out a living. Then one night he happened in on a performance of Martha Graham's modern-dance company. "It had such a tremendous impact on me that it changed my life," he says. An instant convert, he dropped art, began studying with Lester Horton ("a kind of West Coast Martha Graham"), and danced his way through the 1940s as a member of Horton's company...
...broke with the Tories over tariffs-Churchill was a free trader-and bolted to the Liberal opposition. The following year, the Liberals were in power. They regarded their new convert with mixed feelings; no one knew whom Winnie would attack next-the Tories, his own Prime Minister or the King. "Winston thinks with his mouth," wrote Asquith testily...
Berry crouches over his guitar and, spread-eagle, machine-guns the audience. The blonde's head is bobbing, now--a convert. No one is dancing--you can listen to this...