Word: exert
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Russians are ahead of us." Said DuBridge: "It is true that in Russia more men and women received degrees in science and engineering than in the U.S. So what? Maybe that is because in the past 100 years they have so neglected their technical strength that they must now exert strenuous efforts to build it up. If this is true, then our rate of production should not be determined by their weaknesses-only by our own. Let us ask how many engineers we need to do our job, and not take over their figures or the numbers they require...
...floor of the U.S. Senate last week, Georgia's Walter F. George read a manifesto signed by 82 Southern Representatives and 19 Southern Senators. It pledged the signers to exert "all lawful means" toward reversing the Supreme Court's desegregation decision, and it appealed to Southerners "to scrupulously refrain from disorder and lawless acts...
...second form of lobby technique, through campaign expenditures in the constituencies, should receive careful Congressional consideration. Federal laws regulating campaign expenditures are notoriously inadequate. Through large contributions, placed in strategic constituencies, lobbies can exert great influence on lawmakers without ever going to the Capitol...
...Howard will speak the following night on the general problem of civil rights and segregation. Howard, president of the Mississsippi Council of Negro Leadership, will deal largely with pressure on individuals who attempted to get the Negro to exert his right to vote...
...good or ill, Signor Gronchi's views are sure to exert more and more weight on Italian policy at home and abroad in the next several years. This veteran politician and spokesman for the Christian Democratic left, whom the late Alcide de Gasperi deeply mistrusted, refuses to be a ceremonial figurehead of state. Despite constitutional limitations, he has jockeyed himself into a position where, as President, he can make or break Premiers almost if not quite in the manner of the absolute monarch...