Word: exert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recurrences of the same nature is most commendable, but the complete prohibition of speculation on the fall of prices would do more harm than good. Only a narrow-minded person would believe that short sellers alone could cause a major slump of values. Their defenders point out that they exert a restraining influence on unwarranted optimism and expansion and that they usually buy heavily after a defiation of prices. Depressing security values by false rumors is a great evil, but it is no greater than the artificial stimulation of confidence...
There are only two redeeming features to this article. It may inspire principals who have latent abilities to exert themselves. It may be effective advertising for the School of Education...
Scientists Harvey & Loomis watched cells whirl, saw the tiny granules moving through the protoplasm, oil globules going in one direction, yolk granules in another. From the rate of movement they began to calculate the viscosity (gumminess) of the protoplasm. When oil and yolk are separated they exert a pull upon the cell which divides it in two parts. By watching the course of that process the experimenters were able to estimate the tension on the surface of the cell which holds it together. That tension, they found, is at least 100 times smaller than had been supposed. Preliminary results...
...last meeting of the club, a special committee to deal with the Manchurian situation was organized, and a resolution was passed that all Chinese students will exert every effort to back up the four points submitted by Dr. Alfred Sze to the League of Nations as the basis for settling the present dispute...
...scientist announced that it was possible to cut the head from off the body and allow the intellect to exist without nourishment of any king. George Bernard Shaw thought the conceit a quaint one, it would save his getting dressed in the morning and allow him to exert his only important function unhampered, so he toyed idly with the idea in the columns of the London Times. Mr. Shaw is still at large. In direct antithesis we have Thomas Hardy, writing in the fullness of his fatalism "that thought is a disease of the flesh." The Vagabond will...