Word: exertion
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Moving across a background of great scenic attractiveness, and indulging in an occasional fiesta the hero manages to keep active, while Mary Astor and Marian Nixon exert themselves to live up to the respective names of Rosita and Dolores. For the sake of these two there is much hard riding, but in the end el Puma realized that might does make right, and bows his head to the inevitable...
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...