Word: converting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plan to convert the " 50 or 60 " submarine chasers into rum chasers was developed by Prohibition Commissioner Haynes in collaboration with naval officers. He presented the plan to President Harding for decision...
...telling why the brand in question is better than that furnished by any other manufacturer. Groceries come enclosed with recipes for cooking them. Advertising is carried on in every conceivable place, and the only force which causes a ray of hope is the "movies", and they after all, only convert a story of words into a story of action, without improving on the literary tone...
...there were only 1247 students in all schools of a modern sort under Chinese auspices, and yet, when in September, 1905, the government determined to establish a general system of public schools, before the end of that year they had established 5000 such, going so far as to convert Buddhist and Taoist temples into schoolrooms; and in 1918 under government auspices alone there were 134,000 schools and 4,500,000 students. This certainly is some speed in spite of a considerable mass...
...process is being reversed. Professor Todd of Amirerst has conceived the notion of going down thirteen hundred feet in a mine, from which point of vantage he expects to get a peep at our sister planet, as it were, unawares. By rotating a dish of mercury, he plans to convert the mine shaft into a huge-reflecting telescope. This done, no "final close-up" on the silver screen ever betrayed an unsuspecting complexion more completely than such a gigantic instrument would reveal the face of our mysterious relative. No sewing circle, tearing asunder some absent member, can compare with...
...football the great tendency of rule revision in the past ten years has been to convert the game from a test of brute strength to an athletic contest in which there is some show of skill and in which a lighter team will have a chance. Of course there has been a spirit of conservatism among some of the older, larger, institutions, perhaps because they have the knack of acquiring students of great stature...