Word: converting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...relevant to President Jordan's forthcoming improvements. They are small points of confusion or inefficiency which the administration and the Library Committee of the Student Government should be made aware of. For these a special complaint-box ought to be stationed in the library, so that a girl can convert a gripe into a suggestion or an argument on the spot, instead of waiting until she is near the catch-all "Beef-Box" in Agassiz...
Neumiller took over the big job just when Government and Army ordnance people were suggesting that Cat convert to ordnance manufacture. But Neumiller stubbornly said he knew better; the Army would need his earth-moving equipment far more than anything else he could learn to make. He was right. Cat turned out almost $500 million worth of equipment, including bulldozers. During most of the war, bulldozers were needed so badly that they had the same Double-A priority as tanks and planes...
...Jews set about their exodus. Wrote a Spanish priest: "There was not a Christian who did not pity them." Dominican friars indefatigably tried to convert Jews and thus save them from exile. They burst into synagogues to preach the Christian gospel, but rabbis thundered back the teachings of Moses. Some Jews were converted. The majority preferred to leave their homes and their wealth behind. Many Jews removed tombstones from their cemeteries and took them along into exile. Their last ships left Spain the day before Columbus sailed for the New World...
When young William Purcell Witcutt was studying for the Anglican ministry some 20 years ago, he met Roman Catholicism's famed Author-Convert G. K. Chesterton. Under Chesterton's influence, Witcutt renounced his faith. In 1934 he was ordained a Roman Catholic priest, and was assigned to St. Anne's parish, Wappenbury. His sermons and writings (including Catholic Thought and Modern Psychology) were so successful that by last year, at 41, he was regarded as close to the top rank of England's Catholic literati. Then suddenly, last October, he disappeared, and until a month...
General Electric Co. started building the first pilot plant to convert nuclear fission to electrical energy, although the use of atomic power to generate electricity on a commercial scale seemed at least a decade off. On U.S. railroads, the diesel revolution was in full spin; of 1,159 new locomotives put in service during the first ten months, 1,082 were diesels. Jet engines 4 swooshed into their own; of the 3,661 new military planes ordered during the year, 2,209 were jet-powered...