Word: convert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...actually played better than in the Northeastern game," said Harvard Assistant Coach Bill MacDonald. "The lines were working very well, we had much better checking in the offensive zone and the neutral zone, but we just weren't able to convert...
Some of the clubs may incur small financial losses when they convert to alternate heating and phone systems...
...this electronic operation, the typesetters of former years have been transformed into "copy processors." Among them are a crack crew called page coders. Working at a bank of glowing terminals, they convert stories into unique computer-language translations, or "codes," in which photographs, text and other elements of the page are represented by numerical commands...
...London and worked in a bank to support himself and his English wife. When he found time and inspiration, he wrote poems, including The Waste Land (1922), that helped shape the 20th century imagination. He took up British citizenship and abandoned the Unitarianism of his parents to become a convert to the Anglican Church. He spent the last four decades of his life more or less in the public eye, a polite, carefully tailored lecturer ministering to the declining health of Western culture. His plays, including Murder in the Cathedral, The Cocktail Party and The Confidential Clerk, won him increased...
They didn't dominate, didn't convert third downs, didn't even hang on until late in the contest as they've done in every victory this year...