Word: convert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...oldest methods of all, is getting a workout, not only in Israel but around the world. Aristotle taught his students that "salt water, when it turns into vapor, becomes sweet, and the vapor does not form salt water again when it condenses." Julius Caesar relied on stills to convert salt water for his legions to drink during the siege of Alexandria. Ancient mariners learned to boil their drinking water from the sea. Only now, however, is desalinization being attempted on a large scale...
...heat of the sun seems satisfactory on the Greek island of Syme, but it requires too much space and sunshine to be practical almost anywhere else. Though not economical for seawater conversion, electrodialysis, in which electrically charged cellulose-acetate membranes attract the impurities, is being used to convert less salty but brackish waters. Still another method involves freezing. As a youth in Siberia, Alexander Zarchin, an Israeli engineer, became fascinated by the fact that he could drink melted water from the ice of salty seas. In freezing, he learned, the ice crystals form separately from the brine, then melt down...
Princeton's Episcopal chaplain, the Rev. Rowland Cox, believes that students shy away from the open convert seeker or "the guy who wants to gimmick around with your life." "Our job is people," says the Rev. Harold Cooper, one of the Protestant chaplains at the University of Massachusetts, "and the idea is not to bring them into the fold but to help them live better lives as persons." Most chaplains today shun even such an old-fashioned evangelistic idea as a "Religious Emphasis Week"; they talk about God only when the students want to. Church-sponsored activities, often organized...
...line with a dual system--one to carry the rain water, the other to carry the waste--can run into the millions, City Manager John J. curry '19 told the Council. He quoted an official of the Metropolitan District Commission as estimating that Boston would need $50 million to convert to a duel system...
...sober Frankfurt lawyer, gave little shape to his education. At seven, Goethe was proficient in six languages: German, English, French, Italian, Greek, Latin. At 16 he had a serious nervous breakdown. In desperation he began to write -"to say what I suffer." Saved by art, he romantically vowed "to convert my entire life into a work...