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Word: convertible (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many, what would be the effect on the nation if Harvard, an institution supposedly in close tough with the White House, should suddenly announce plans for atomic war? President Pusey appointed a committee to study the problem; the evenutal decision was to build no new facilities but to convert, wherever possible, existing basements and tunnels into fall-out shelters...

Author: By Frederic L. Ballard jr., | Title: The School Year at Harvard: Concern For National Affairs | 7/2/1962 | See Source »

...Gentile. Jacob is arrested, but escapes and travels with his infant son to Palestine. In his old age, Jacob returns to the village where Wanda died. He finds that her bones, buried in unconsecrated ground, have been surrounded by spreading graves; the dead have accepted the convert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Same Jacob | 6/29/1962 | See Source »

First brought to West Africa by the Portuguese explorers of the 15th century, Christianity penetrated the continent only during the heyday of 19th century colonization. Missionaries were eager to convert, but often reluctant to see their converts grow up to join the clergy. The first Senegalese priest was ordained in 1843-but in 1900 there were only ten native clerics in French West Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Black Bishops | 6/22/1962 | See Source »

...approval of the Israeli government and the wary cooperation of the prisoner, Evangelical Preacher Hull has been Eichmann's spiritual adviser since his conviction. Hull and his wife, who serves as German-English interpreter, are the only strangers Eichmann is allowed to see, and they hope to convert him before the Israel Supreme Court rules, probably next month, on his appeal of his death sentence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Converting Eichmann | 5/18/1962 | See Source »

...what the future holds for dialers when the Bell Telephone System's ANC (All-Number-Calling) plan goes into effect all over the U.S. Already 11 million of the 76 million telephones in the U.S. are on ANC. The Bell System and 3,000 independent companies expect to convert all telephones in five years a projected 95 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Home: By the Numbers | 5/11/1962 | See Source »

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