Word: convert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expedition, which left January 5 for a planned two-month mission, was organized last fall by Hans Guggenheim, professor of architecture at MIT. Wiedemann and two other Harvard students, who later could not get visas for the trip, joined MIT graduate students in planning ways to convert granaries of the Dogon tribe into water storage tanks...
...students had only enough time to convert one granary, since their time was dominated by political considerations from the beginning. Their first week was spent in Bamako, Mali's capital, negotiating with the military government of Moussa Traore for aid in their work...
...Morning Watch council. The outcome of it all was that Charlie could talk about Jesus only as a teacher. No more of this talking about him as the Lord. We don't want to offend "our Jewish students." That really ticked old Charlie off. He even stopped trying to convert me after that--I guess he figured all I had coming to me was hell fire and damnation...
...this was strictly legitimate; swiping secret documents was not. Because somebody was getting such documents out of the NSC, however, Kissinger requested and then Attorney General John Mitchell ordered that the FBI tap the telephones of Radford and four associates for a six-month period. Radford, a convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, admits knowing Anderson-they worshiped at the same Mormon church in Washington-but he denies that he was the source of the leak...
Chalmers, McKay Professor of Metallurgy, is collaborating with the Tyco Labs in Waltham in an attempt to perfect a process which would convert solar energy into inexpensive industrial power...