Word: exert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt's most powerful political supporters include some whose property interests in Mexico may cause him to exert pressure on this government...
...Comrade Trotsky motored to Lyon. announced the subject of his Copenhagen lectures: "Just what is the Russian Revolution of October?" Reporters agreed that Comrade Trotsky is taking chances on his trip to Denmark. Germany still will not let him cross her frontiers. France and Italy cannot be expected to exert themselves unduly should either White Russians or Stalin Communists take pot shots at the onetime Red War Lord...
...neither the Tutorial System nor the Reading Periods nor the House Plan have meant all they may come to mean in the shaping of undergraduate education. There are plenty of men who could fill the President's office with dignity and executive skill. There are very few who could exert the kind of influence in the college which would put a full measure of vitality into those forms of organization which President Lowell has brought into being...
...adjust our higher education to our social needs." Disregarding present economic conditions, the educators will study as topics the University in relation to economic and governmental changes; and the university's relations to new spiritual values. They will seek a definite program of education by which college graduates may exert constructive influence on society. The "great influx if students" in all colleges during the postwar decade, is Brown feels, the great opportunity fir university ideals and for the university mind, trained to a broad and intelligent outlook, to be an important social influence...
Indefinite as the plans of the conference seem to be, it is only fair to make an estimate if the nature and amount of influence that the university graduate can exert. Knowledge of facts, although it is the basis if college instruction, has, despite all pragmatic objections a purely intrinsic value. It is path or the lesson of tolerance and the ideas of his own generation which the college graduate has absorbed that can have any social effect. This is the idea of Kotsching when he speaks of youth "yearning after a now conception of the world, a Weltanshauung which...