Word: convert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lesser benefices conferred by Britain's empire builders on untutored natives was the British monetary system of pence, shillings (12 pence) and pounds (20 shillings). As the empire slowly dissolved, most colonials seized the first chance to convert to a saner system. India, Pakistan and Ceylon switched to a decimalized rupee, Canada and Singapore to a decimalized dollar. Last week South Africa, whose Afrikaner government is intent on being as separate from Britain as it can be without taking itself out of the Commonwealth, replaced the pound with a decimal system of Rands and cents...
...answer: ?1 2s. 3d. It is solved by first turning everything into shillings, then into pence. Multiply the pounds by 20, add the shillings, multiply the sum by 12, and add the pennies. Then divide by 23 (cricket bats) and convert back to pounds, shillings and pence by division. Answer in the new system: 2 Rands, 22 l/2 cents...
...this has rarely been stated flatly by a bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church. For so saying, San Francisco's Bishop James A. Pike has been accused of heresy by some of his fellow Episcopalians. While Pike, an ex-lawyer and a convert from Roman Catholicism, has a well-demonstrated talent for starting controversy and making news, the issues at stake are real and deep...
...have separated neurons from their adherent glial cells and have weighed them in units as small as millionths of a millionth of a gram. By taking fresh, still-living cells from a rabbit's brain, the Hyden team has been able to find out how they use and convert their chemical fuels under varying conditions...
...convert the Yard dormitories into Houses would cost approximately $5 million, an expense much too great for architectural alterations. Yet many features of the House system, in particular resident tutors, can be extended to Freshmen without great expense. Intelligent experimentation on the basis of thirty years' use of the Houses can make a student's first year more rewarding intellectually...