Word: exert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boris Karloff, who decided to postpone decision on a sympathetic strike until a mass meeting could be held, meantime left the question of passing through picket lines to individual decision. At the mass meeting, some 4,000 solemn-faced cinemactors voted to wait another week before deciding whether to exert their social consciousness to the full...
...week, just as previous sweeping Rightist drives relied enormously on Italian and German bombers and tanks. Nearly every night last week Madrid put on wild celebrations. Its Defense Junta voted to decorate its chairman General José Miaja "for valor." This wise, owl-bald Spanish professional soldier had to exert himself afresh to check the "overoptimism" against which he is so tart...
novelists seemed chiefly important because they promised to exert the purely negative influence of discouraging such experiments in the future...
...examinations. Students evidently seek solace from nervous tension in gum-chewing. Rather significant, however, is the fact that the number of wads in Memorial Hall after an exam cannot compare with the number deposited in Sever and the New Lecture Hall. The awe-inspiring nature of the edifice must exert a restraining influence on the chicle-grinders. Especially heavy sufferers from deposits during exams are the so-called "examination boards" laid across armrests for the occasions...
...Puritans probably had a better time than the Rotarians at that. The Pursuit of happiness is an inalienable right which most of our free citizens exert in an inept and usually futile fashion, and if we may assume Professor Hocking wrote his speech after a visit to a night club it is easy enough to get the point of his remarks. --N. Y. World-Telegram