Word: exert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exert our utmost charm to all guests at a party...
...picture also was testimony to the influence the Court can exert on its own physiognomies. Two and a half years on the bench had molded ripsnorting Hugo LaFayette Black (right, front) into a male personification of Law. Only misfit face in the lot was that of Frank Murphy (right, rear), who looked as ethereally wretched as always...
Dorgan cited the General Laws of Massachusetts and the State Constitution as the basis of his case. Chapter 71, Section 30 of the former says, in part: "The presidents, professors and tutors of the university at Cambridge . . . shall exert their best endeavors to impress on the minds of children in youth committed to their care and instruction the principles of piety and justice . . . chastity, moderation, and temperance . . . and also to point out to them the evil tendency of the opposite vices...
...infringed; we must particularly emphasize that the bargaining rights of labor be not curtailed as is proposed, for instance, by the suggested M-day plan; we must insist on freedom of speech for all religious groups and all political parties, and for all attitudes towards the war. We must exert our influence to see that strict neutrality is observed without hedging. There must be no loans to belligerents, which might, as in 1917, tend to involve us in war. We must beware of spending huge amounts for armament increases, when all our attention is needed for such pressing domestic problems...
With the approach of the mid-year examinations, the University and individual courses have once more taken steps to discourage students from frequenting tutoring schools which, according to Dean Hanford last Spring, "exert an evil influence upon the college...