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Word: convertibility (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were raised by Europeans when they began colonizing the rest of the world, also confront modern man as he prepares to colonize space. A modest but perplexing dilemma would result from the discovery of intelligent beings elsewhere in the universe. The question then would be: Should Christians attempt to convert their celestial neighbors? Extraterrestrial evangelism might not be necessary, suggests Dr. Per Massing of the Boston University School of Theology. "If God has revealed himself to people on another planet," he says, "that revelation must be essentially in agreement with that which he revealed to us-given the assumption that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theology: Challenge in the Heavens | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

Instead of such discussion, we were treated to the spectacle of the CEP's attempt to take what was for the H-RPC (and for many on the SFAC and HUC) the moral question of the academic inappropriateness of ROTC to a university, and convert it into the amoral question of the academic insufficiency of ROTC courses. (Sec, for instance, the relatively indignant press release of the chairmen of the three committees after their press conference with Ford, just before the Paine Hall demonstration...

Author: By Timothy D. Gould, | Title: Force and History at Harvard: Is Tolerance Possible? | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

After Cavanagh's score in the final period--a goal almost identical to Gurry's--the Crimson controlled play and had numerous opportunities which they could only convert into two scores...

Author: By Mark H. Odonoghue, | Title: Stickmen Coast, 5-1, While Wrestlers Lose | 1/9/1969 | See Source »

Bowing to conservationist pressures, Secretary Hickel agrees to convert California's last Redwood into a national monument. Hickel personally supervises the task of digging an elevator shaft to its top, where he opens a small heliport. Trish Nixon breaks her engagement to George Hamilton, reported honeymooning with Mark Rudd in Elkton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tea Leaves and Taurus | 1/6/1969 | See Source »

...programming that network executives claim is uneconomical. But that vision did not reckon with the relentless opposition of movie exhibitors and the broadcasting lobbies in Washington. Over the years the TV industry kept insisting, as the National Association of Broadcasters' chief counsel put it, that pay TV "would convert a free highway into a toll road. It would require the public to pay for what they now view for free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Payday, Some Day | 12/27/1968 | See Source »

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