Word: transformed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mile, Molineux turned on a powerful sprint to transform a close race into a romp, beating Dave Cairns by fifty yards in 4.27.5. He had even lead trouble in the two mile, completely running away from Dave Gregory and Emil San Soucie...
...easy to transform a good play into a good movie. Perhaps someone will someday invent a "play-grinder" so that movie makers can insert a good drama, turn a crank and pull out a different, but equally good, movie. But since there is no such machine now, producers and directors must use their own judgment in deciding what will be effective for the screen. Stanley Kramer and Laslo Benedek have guessed wrong in Death of a Salesman...
...five years [we] have lived in the fear of the Russians and from the charity of the Americans," he said. "Before such a spectacle we are listless, as if history would wait, as if we had time-decades and decades-to transform our mentality, to suppress our customs barriers, to abandon our national egotisms ... I have been astounded by the amount of talent that has been expended in this Assembly to explain that something could not be done." In particular he attacked Winston Churchill, who more than any man had set the idea of federation to rolling...
...exhortation to humility. It contradicts no less radically the spirit of open-minded scientific inquiry ... It dictates a rigid, monolithic society which, however benevolent, regiments its members according to an orthodox party line." If Buckley had his way, said Greene, teaching "would become . . . dull, slavish, and uninspired . . . He would transform Yale into the most dogmatic, hidebound institute for orthodox propaganda...
Next month the new method will be tried astronomically; its inventors hope that it will transform the biggest telescope of the Paris Observatory (24 inches) into the equivalent of a 240-incher, and make it possible to photograph billions of faint stars never detected before...