Word: convert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Berlin in 1932 when he discovered the urea cycle, a biochemical process in which urea, the product of metabolized protein, is formed in the liver. Four years later, after fleeing to England from Nazi Germany, he discovered the citric acid cycle-later named the Krebs cycle-in which organisms convert carbon compounds into carbon dioxide. In the late 1950s, he discovered the glyoxylate cycle, in which fats are used as carbon sources for cell growth. Krebs, a naturalized British citizen, was knighted...
...WILL do no good to convert more people to a wrongheaded Christianity; it is the Church itself that must be converted, or perhaps rejuvenated, till it resembles the early, activist, Christian church. There is a single American precedent-the civil rights movements of the 1960s was born in the Black Christian church, and there found its greatest source of strength. Rev. Martin Luther King, writing in 1963 from a jail in Birmingham, Alabama, expressed the central theme of his wing of the civil rights movement: "Jesus Christ was an extremist for love, truth and goodness and thereby rose above...
...assistant. The question stumped her 17 colleagues for a few moments, but the discussion leaped to life when Chemical Engineer Russell Phillips explained that the name refers not to some new foreign movie director but rather to thin layers of organic matter that might some day be used to convert solar energy to electricity. The explanation spurred another scientist, Nevin Hiester, to point out that Langmuir Blodgett films are still too expensive for widespread use in industry...
Imparato said she and her staff have many plans for the board but would not claborate on them. She did say that the board will continue to enforce the city's removal permit ordinance, which requires landlords to obtain permission from the city in order to convert apartments to condominiums...
...lifetime resident of Cambridge and a retired school teacher from Roberts Elementary School. Donovan said she has seen "people driven out all around" by efforts to convert rented property into condominiums...