Word: convert
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...physical resources people are working very hard on the dance issue, and looking at a bunch of spaces that are currently here. As I see it, you’ve either got to convert some large space or you’ve got to build something. I don’t think there’s anything that’s here that we’ve overlooked. We’ve looked at everything in Cambridge. Just as crucial is the practice room situation...
...countless Sox hats I see each day speak to a brand of people united by faith that the losers will one day triumph. The hat fit perfectly, and seemed like it was meant to be worn on my head. I decided it was time to become a convert. I’ve lived here for four years, I’ve watched summers become fall inside Fenway Park, and I’ve become disgusted with the Yankees’ snobbery...
...report of the president and treasurer of Harvard College warned that sports “interfere with, instead of clarifying and maintaining, mental activity; they convert the student into a powerful animal, and dull for the time his intellectual parts.” The report suggested limiting practice time to two hours a day and restricting competition to New England...
...around the red-hot top of the order. Second baseman Zak Farkes, who at times has looked less than comfortable in the field, showed signs by laying out for several well-hit ground balls he would have approached more tentatively earlier in the season. Farkes didn’t convert them all, but the effort was there, and for Farkes and an infield that has struggled as a whole all season long (and, in fairness, did again yesterday), that’s important...
Harvard retaliated when junior midfielder Jen Brooks managed to convert off a free position shot with 24 minutes remaining, but it was too little, too late...