Word: convert
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When the new Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study decided to convert the Agassiz Theater into offices instead of using it as undergraduate performance space, the already existing theater crunch at Harvard became intolerable. Harvard finally purchased the Hasty Pudding Theater with the intention of opening up the theater to more undergraduate groups...
Harvard actually fired more shots on goal than UMass (7-2) during that stretch, but failed to convert the opportunities...
...They are Harvard police officers," Taylor says when asked if individual officers might be considered public officials. "Deputization does not convert them into public officers, and it does not convert the department into a public agency...
Schubert, too, was skeptical at the beginning. Potential world champions don't just show up. Of all sports, swimming is the most measured, timed, predictable. There aren't supposed be surprises. Yet here was a big surprise. Schubert, too, became a fast convert. He offered a scholarship. "This was a totally different level of competition for me," Krayzelburg says. "When I showed up, I was the fifth-fastest backstroker on the team. I wasn't eligible for my first year, so I only could swim in the little, 25-meter pool every day, while the team practiced...
...Glamour Workshop. It wasn't until I allowed them to take a picture of my armpit and felt Carmen Libido raise my arm, inhale and shout "A+!!" that my gaydar blipped. When Shaboom Libido started videotaping and said, "This is Joel, our straight man, whom we are going to convert or at least use before this weekend is over," I realized these guys were gayer than the 1890s...