Word: converting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard monopolized the scoring in the first half, with Marsh Halleb and Bill Waters each making a try. Dave Colwell, former Yale kicking ace, added two more points with a successful conversion after the first three points, though he failed to convert after the second...
When the Lampoon published its fake expose nearly three mouths ago, and Mickey countered by announcing that he would sue the magazine, take over its palatial building, and convert it into an Irish night club, seasoned observers said "More publicity for Mickey," and laughed...
Take away Father Coughlin's microphone and Social Justice and there would be little left but a parish priest. But Monsignor Sheen is much more than a pulpiteer: he is one of the Church's ablest converters. Much in demand for instructing converts, he spends ten hours a week at this quiet, heart-&-soul job. Some of his more notable converts: the late Hoovercrat Horace A. Mann and his wife, the late Heywood Broun, whom Monsignor Sheen baptized, gave last rites to and buried (TIME, Jan. 1). Monsignor Sheen is now preparing Henry Ford's grandson Henry...
...hard for Italy's entry into the war on France's side. To Editor Cachin was assigned the delicate mission of seeing that French money found its way into Editor Mussolini's pants. But afterwards, in 1920, on a trip to Moscow, Marcel Cachin became a convert to Communism. And like most converts, he became more Communist than Lenin...
Since 1920 Cartoonist William Gropper has been busy as a beaver, trying to gnaw down the capitalist system. One day that year Manhattan's Tribune rashly sent Gropper to caricature an I. W. W. rally. Instead, he became a convert. This week Manhattanites from Red to pink and some who just like pictures celebrated "20 Years of Bill Gropper" with a show of his recent paintings at the A. C. A. Gallery, a Gropper monograph (36 reproductions, text by self-taught fellow Artist Joe Jones), a rousing rally in Mecca Temple...