Word: convertibility
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fall of 1960, Evelyn Wood set out to convert the world, opening about 25 instruction centers around the United States. The following September, Evelyn Wood went bankrupt and the company sold out at 30 cents on the dollar...
...these critics, Reading Dynamics convert Stauffer has an answer: "They are always demanding we show them how it is possible it can be done. But none of them has ever shown us that it can't be done...
...years. It has been the assumption that we could concentrate on domestic matters and leave foreign policy to the self-styled experts and the conservatives who quite frequently are one and the same. Or it could be left to those liberals who on becoming associated with foreign policy could convert to the official cliches and the doctrines of John Foster Dulles on a moment's notice. Liberalism has few more depressing phenomena than its instant apologists where foreign policy is concerned...
Once upon a time there was a definite need for schools which offered preparation for college, public education not being adequate enough nor tutorial education uniform enough to meet the universities' requirements. For this reason (as well as to convert boys into moral men, fit for the best banking houses and clubs of the Eastern Seaboard) the Endicott Peabodys of the world opened up their schools in forgotten corners of New England. There they provided a needed educational service for several generations...
...meeting would never have been conceived without SDS's intense activity throughout the fall and winter. It would never have taken place unless the Ambassador had generously consented to subject himself to what he knew would be two very uncomfortable hours. That he failed to convert his audience, which clearly represented a cross-section of student opinion, reflects on the policy...