Word: exert
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...half mile run was equally poorly handicapped and was won by Fenno who hardly had to exert himself...
Finally, all expenditures in power must be made good by food and sleep. It must be remembered that man's abilities are limited and he must not over exert. It is not athletics alone which injures, but athletics combined with dissipation or too much study...
...policy is taking shape that is bound to alter all the national ideals that we have cultivated hitherto. Let us refuse to be bound over night by proclamation, or hypnotized by sacramental phrases through the day. Let us consult our reason as to what is best, and then exert ourselves as citizens with all our might...
...impossible almost to judge of the playing of the Harvard men against a team so much inferior, but it was easy to see that the men did not exert themselves to the utmost. Holt did not do his best, in fact he has not played up to his limit lately. He is very much inclined to shirk...
...often broad and sometimes coarse. Whether Aristophanes wrote merely in fun or for a serious purpose is a mooted question. If he intended to bring about a reform, he made a dismal failure. Great as his talents were, he took no stock in tragedy or philosophy, but chose to exert all his energies in comedy. His efforts were well rewarded, for he still remains the greatest comic poet of all time...