Word: exert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sohrab adjured the couple: "When God gives you sweet and lovely children, exert yourselves in their education that they may become imperishable flowers in the divine rose garden, nightingales in the ideal paradise, servants of the world of humanity and fruits of the Tree of Life...
Aside from the positive effect which it will exert upon House individuality and intramural activity, the organization of several House debating societies this week suggests an examination of the forensic methods now to be taught to an ever larger body of unsuspecting career...
...gives pause to wonder what sort of criticism these men bring to bear on the Department of Economics. Do they exert what influence they can toward seeing that a more or less cloistered faculty is alive to the vital economic problems of the day? Do they, in their spare moments between testifying before Senate investigating committees and issuing denunciations of the Securities Law, give a thought to the part which Harvard's Economics department ought to play in training the leaders of a new order of society? There is, perhaps, no reason to suppose that the opinions of all these...
...follows: "It is conceivable, that an enlargement of the already ample monetary base might in some fashion or another bring about the expansion and more effective distribution of credit and currency, but for myself I confess an entire inability to discover any definite influence that such an increase could exert...
Felix Frankfurter's capacity for dealing with men is the tool which has enabled him to exert the extraordinary influence with which he is rightly credited. Take, for example, his influence on the development of public law in the United States. His work has been done, not through the medium of his own books, which are few and of secondary importance, but through his stimulation of other men. Scarcely an important book has been published in recent years dealing with public law in which the author does not acknowledge his debt to Professor Frankfurter for suggesting the work...