Word: convert
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Towering over the heads of their Brown opponents, center Elaine Holpuch and forward Janet Judge went to work on the boards and garnered some 25 rebounds between them before the night was through. The only trouble was that the cagers just couldn't convert them into buckets...
Despite the crowd's pulsing cheer of "Harvard! Harvard!," the Crimson power play failed to convert with five minutes remaining. Seconds later, Tate, who had another stellar night in the nets steering aside 17 Eli shots, denied a Field stuff to send the contest into overtime...
...said "ridiculously restrictive policies are largely responsible for current problems in the auto industry" and that such difficulties will spread to other industries. Strict government regulations "convert engineers to lawyers" as companies are encouraged to try and get around pollution reduction rather than develop effective technology, he added...
Anticipating the passage of a proposed ordinance which would strictly restrict DNA experimentation, Genetics Institute (GI) last week withdrew its application to convert an empty building in Somerville to a DNA research facility, Somerville officials said yesterday...
...comparative study of a million words of copying, the typist's hands had to hurdle 82,000 times on the QWERTY board, but only 320 times on the Maltron. Secretaries in a Maltron test sponsored by the British government found it takes about a month to convert to the new system. Most enjoyed it. "Your fingers don't ache," said Julie Stevens, 18, who makes her living copying complex patent applications. The Maltron keyboard's main problem is simple entrenched inertia. Manufacturers all make the QWERTY, and millions of typists around the world know it. So nobody...