Word: convert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...industry, the byproducts of a cleanup often offset part of the costs. Los Angeles County's oil refineries strip smelly hydrogen sulphide from crude oil, convert it to 450 tons a day of marketable sulphur. Boston Edison Co. mines vanadium from its oil-fired smoke, exports it to Belgium. For the nation, air and water cleanups mean a huge saving in dollars as well as in health. An air cleanup alone would save $11 billion a year that is now wasted on extra cleaning, painting, corrosion and damage to crops and property...
Then he insisted. "It is the duty of the cities to welcome the underprivileged because they represent an opportunity to convert the weakness of the Republic, the cities, into its strength...
...goal was all Harvard needed, but the Crimson's second tally, after ten minutes of the third quarter, ripped away the possibility of the Tigers' fluking a tie. Polk bounced in a shot from eight yards away, off a rebound from Dave Taft's attempt to convert a corner kick...
...extra men in Winthrop House forced Master Chalmers to place an extra student in each of six suites and to convert the House guest suite into a triple...
...anyone who loves a parade the military spectacle has the spit and polish, precision, pomp and pageantry that only the British can bring off-an act that will still be burnished bright when the Beatles are balding, a martial display that could convert a Quaker. The near capacity opener in New York last week marked the sixth stop on a tour that would take in 33 more U.S. cities in the next nine weeks...