Word: exert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exorcise their financial advantage to the distant ideal of economic welfare and political honesty. It is not futile, however, to hope that the education of the reading public to the essential function of a newspaper in an economic world may make it financially more profitable to newspapers-owners to exert themselves to fill properly their important place in the economic organization...
...second suggestion appears on the surface more immediately applicable and popular. A commission to exert control over industry is generally admitted to be necessary if financial tangles are to be avoided in the future. The national economy is now mature and developed to the point where control would not mean constriction. At the same time there is ever increasing need to end the operation--of the Jay Goulds and promoters of the present who make a good thing of tinkering with American industrial and financial machinery...
...gradual, return of confidence. Pointing to the efforts of the R. F. C. and anti-hoarding campaign, Secretary Mills added, ". . . While it seems almost cruel to urge patience ... yet I cannot help but feel we should give the forces which have been set in motion an opportunity to exert themselves before yielding to doubt as to whether we are on the right path." Pressmen applauded politely...
However they may be inspired, Russian composers do well to comply with governmental wishes since musical performances are as strictly supervised as industry under the Five-Year Plan. Concerts and operas to be approved must serve one of two purposes. They must exert an indisputable cultural influence, hence the current enthusiasm for the classicists. Or they must promote propaganda. Since jazz does neither, it is never played. Madame Bufferfly may be given at the opera house but extremists reconcile themselves to it on the ground that Pinkerion. the naval officer who deserted Butterfly, was a capitalist. All religious music...
...such requests are granted; it is always possible, however, to prevent speeches on undesirable subjects by refusing the necessary authorization. Limitations which have been laid down in this way have served only to drive the agitators to secret meetings, where by posing as martyrs, they have been able to exert a far more dangerous influence than they could by speaking in the open...