Word: exertion
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...powerful trilogy of forces ceaselessly exert themselves to oust the bespectacled Doctor; and therefore he won a momentous point last week, by securing the extension of his contract. Against him are the old, vastly rich Persian families whom he has taxed; secondly, the many politicians whose powers he has curbed through controlling their salaries; and lastly, the numerous agents of Soviet Russia in Persia who have thoroughly satisfied themselves that Dr. Millspaugh is the chief agent of a vast Anglo-U. S. conspiracy to seize the oil and opium lands of Persia. The Doctor, although thus powerfully opposed, has greatly...
...intimate with the American mother of Cintra Amory. The two girls, growing up together in the flowery atmosphere of pre-War Europe, grew up differently. Lilias, a remote and nervous comet, began her life by being engaged to Franz Czarany who later veered through an Italian milky way to exert an astral influence on Cintra. She, a steadier but not less brilliant star than Lilias, later married Terrence Down. When Lilias came to Paris after the War, Terrence was not blind to her bright beauty; but when she no longer dazzled his gaze, he returned to his wife, leaving Lilias...
When a newspaper correspondent makes an error which gets published, he usually receives a thoroughgoing reprimand in private from his chief. Should he then exert himself to make amends, he is usually patted on the back and told he is "good." But, again, this is done privately. Sometimes, however, the initial fault is so grievous that the correspondent's employers feel obliged to seize the first opportunity to pat the erring one publicly, so that all may know his professional family is still proud...
Strong, born in 1872, has been in his office since 1914, when the Federal Reserve System was instituted. He is a sick man, and it was for that reason that his visitors came to him in a body, so that he would not be obliged to exert his little strength to go to them, as had been his past habit...
...continued, always keeping his audience's interest at a high point with concrete stories, and showed how every individual is controlled by heredity and environment. After making his point he drew the logical conclusion that if a man is controlled by society and can exert very little control over his actions, society has no right to punish him for action it has taught him itself...