Word: exert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henry Parkman, Jr. '15, will give a short address discussing generally the "opportunities for college graduates to exert a reforming influence in politics." Parkman is a member of the State Senate and one of the leaders of the Republican party in Massachusetts...
...people owe spiritual allegiance to Rome. Royal Spain was the only country that still paid state tribute to the Roman Catholic Church: between 5000,000 and 60,000,000 gold pesetas a year (about $12,000,000). The Church owns property of incalculable value, priests exert tremendous influence, not only spiritually. The Alcala Zamora Government, remembering Mexico's troubles, moved tactfully last week toward breaking the relations of Church and State...
...pledge, God helping me, in honor of the sacred thirst of our Lord and with the help of the Holy Spirit, never to drink intoxicating liquor or to use any narcotic or opiate, and that I will through life exert my utmost endeavors to prevent their sale and use by others...
...picked him as one of his "new patriots" who would sacrifice a $100,000 per year private practice for a $10,000 per year Federal job, made him Undersecretary of State. He ran the State Department when Statesman Stimson was away at the London Naval Conference, continued thereafter to exert a dominant influence upon its affairs...
Sometimes the inhibition is deeper and the Public School Boy feels that for none of the ordinary objects of life is it worthwhile going "all out." Should ever an emergency arise he will exert himself as much as necessary, and all over the world there are proofs of the splendid worth of the English Public School Boy in an emergency. But many of them seem to go through life waiting, before they will exert themselves, for a cataclysm which never arises. Cataclysms are rare. The need for hard work is constant...