Word: converting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week L'Osservatore Romano, Vatican newspaper, even accused them of trying to take advantage of last month's earthquake (TIME, Aug. 4, Aug. 11) to convert the bewildered populace...
Real Wages. "Economic research and social work are as characteristic of Western civilization as Ford cars, chain stores, radio sets, talking pictures, and tabloid papers with screaming headlines. Social workers seem more like engineers planning to reclaim a swamp than zealots trying to convert the heathen."?Dr. Wesley Clair Mitchell, director of research at the National Bureau of Economic Re-search and chairman of President Hoover's Research Committee on Social Trends. He observed that the record of earnings for the 19th and 20th Centuries in England and the U. S. has been one of alternating gains and losses...
...convert to the highest trust in the immortality of a beneficent system in the universe raises his voice in fuller praise each morning when the daily hymn is announced. But experience, the nagging mother of cynicism, teaches that the high hopes of the fanatical candidates for the episcopacy of the Stock Exchange will be crushed; the most they can hope for is elevation to the post of rector in a quiet country parsonage, where they can continue to pay their financial reverence and reap the rewards of honest labor by selling bonds to the inhabitants of the rural bailiwick...
Third Section, "The Age of Electricity," was introduced with a flashing of lights. Then came a display of inventions. Then "Control," now a lusty, up and coming young man, stepped once more to the front of the stage to say: "I am the engineer. . . . I control, I convert. I do not create...
...golden anniversary: Field-Major Emma Westbrook, 86, onetime corps officer at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Last week she went down to the Battery to help the Army. She still actively bangs her tambourine in the corps of Yonkers, N. Y. To newsgatherers she related how her first U. S. convert was an unfortunate who, ejected from a saloon, had landed head down in an ash barrel. Peering over an improvised rostrum at a great throng she cried: "We began here 50 years ago, and always we'll go on. Hallelujah...