Word: convert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last Thursday, school officials announced that a recent $7 million gift would be used to convert the basement of Memorial Hall into a student center in time for the 1995-96 school year...
...said there are no plans to convert theupperclass houses to the card key system mosthouses are built around provides an extra measureof security. "We're working hard to come up withnew ideas, but we don't want to complicatematters," said Jewett...
While the Crimson had kept up constant pressure in the Huskies' end, but had failed to convert on a number of opportunites, including several corner and indirect kicks...
...cycle's first volume was The Ice-Shirt, a brooding narration of the settling of Greenland and Vinland. Fathers and Crows has six glossaries, endless footnotes, maps and epigraphs, a 47-page biography of St. Ignatius Loyola and nearly 1,000 pages. It relates Jesuit efforts to convert Huron and Iroquois Indians in the early 17th century, but the author prepares his narration so thoroughly that major characters are not introduced before the book's tardy midpoint...
...They changed allegiance again in 1980, helping to give Ronald Reagan and Bush large majorities. This year there is some wavering among the faithful. One reason is mild disappointment with Bush. Another is Bill Clinton's and Al Gore's status as churchgoing Southern Baptists. If Clinton and Gore convert their religious ties into enough votes, the Democrats can be politically born again in the South and a few pivotal states elsewhere...