Word: converting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like many Ukiyo-e artists, Jacoulet hires woodcarvers and printers to convert his ideas into prints. He thinks the prints should surpass the original designs...
...Typical convert-winning thesis: "We are living in an era of revolution. . . . Basically there are only two revolutions possible. Either we reform institutions, or we reform man. . . . Each revolution has its symbol. The symbol of one . . . the clenched fist. The clenched fist that stands for hatred, and for violence and for destruction. . . . And the other ... the symbol of the folded hands. They cannot strike, for they were not made for offense; they cannot protect, for they were not made for defense; they can only supplicate, only pray . . . ten Gothic spires aspiring heavenward for the souls...
When depression struck as he had predicted, he proposed that nations "spend their way back to prosperity," and made an early convert of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Taking as his basis the formula p=mv/t* he then drew the famous Keynesian corollaries: deficit financing to put money in the hands of the unemployed, managed currency, reconstruction of the social system so that more high-velocity money gets into the hands of the poor, who spend it, less low-velocity money into the hands of the rich, who save...
...Farm out undergraduates to live with faculty families and New Haven alumni. 1$ Convert 19 private houses, a clubhouse and boathouse into dormitories...
University plans to convert Botanical Garden and Observatory areas into real estate projects designed to help meet the housing shortage problem will face their final test tomorrow night at 8 o'clock, when the Cambridge Planning Board will hold an open meeting in the City Hall to consider the Corporation's request for rezoning of the district...