Word: convertible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the co-educational flavor of the summer session, College students will be subject to rigid parietal rules, which permit no visiting between sexes in the dorms. The effect of this barrier, coupled with the lack of common room facilities, tends to convert the Yard "into a large summer common room," according to Crooks...
...time-out, an Indian yelled "They got nothin'! They got nothin'!" Within ten seconds Watts had brought the ball in from offside, spun off his defenseman, Sly, and stuffed the ball into the nets to put the Crimson ahead 2 to 1. Sixty seconds later Sly watched Dave Nyhan convert a Watts pass into the third Harvard tally...
...passing months, Lavrinc kept up his flying (he had logged a total of 5,101 hours before his death) and his purposeful dedication to religion. He worked with alcoholics, tried to convert a Roman Catholic, helped conduct services at a local jail, plunged into the Youth for Christ movement. He lived for a time with fundamentalist families, later moved into a trailer park. Most of all, he longed for his children. Says a friend, recalling how Lavrinc had missed his daughter: "He said he had always wanted a little blonde-headed girl, and now that he had her, he couldn...
...osteopaths, the feud was over. Leaders of the state osteopathic association and the state medical society signed an agreement, expected to be ratified next month, merging the two organizations. Under the terms of the agreement, the Los Angeles College of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons will be converted into a medical school, and the state's 63 osteopathic hospitals* will be free to convert to medical hospitals. Osteopaths will be given the option of exchanging their D.O. for an M.D., with the aim of discontinuing future licensing of D.O.s...
...reason for the poor Socialist showing seemed to be that old-line left-wing activists were at best lukewarm about the new "bourgeois" look that Brandt has given his party, while Brandt has not won over the middle-class and younger voters he hoped to convert...