Word: convert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THERE IS A CONSTANT undercurrent in this film, background monologues that threaten to convert Our Hitler into a polemic, recordings of speeches by Hitler, Goebbels, Goering. The props, the voices, the music (mostly Wagner, Beethoven, Mozart and Nazi Party songs) play off each other to produce the ideological confusion that is the character of this film, that was also Nazi Germany...
...Cambridge Rent Control Board began hearings yesterday on the University plan to evict tenants from 7 Sumner Rd. and convert the apartments into office space for the Graduate School of Design...
...Student Assembly requested the formation of the committee in a December letter to Dean Fox, saying that the committee should study ways to convert undergraduate enthusiasm for student government into effective organizations...
Strander's results sounded exciting to Dr. Jordan Gutterman, of the M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute in Houston. He flew to Sweden to observe Strander's work, and soon became a convert. Says he: "There was no question. He was having good results." Back home, Gutterman obtained money from a private foundation to buy enough Finnish IF to try it on 38 patients with advanced breast cancer, multiple myeloma or lymphoma. Again the results were encouraging. Seven of 17 breast cancer patients had positive results, as did six of ten with myeloma and six of eleven with lymphoma...
...powerful 101-cm (40-in.) telescopes and a smaller 38-cm (15-in.) auxiliary telescope. As the instruments scan the skies, the images they capture will be focused onto sensitive photo-imaging tubes rather than film. An outgrowth of the military's night-vision devices, these tubes convert even the faintest flickers of light into electronic impulses, which are then fed into computers. There GEODSS performs its real prestidigitation. It separates from the myriad stars in the background any tiny man-made objects passing into the telescope's field of view...