Word: exerts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...might sweep away his property, his life or those he loved. There were no boisterous demonstrations. But every man felt a silent thankfulness that through his President he had now committed himself to a cause. He was now given an opportunity in union with his fellow countrymen to exert a great force for right...
...lies in a new field, and everything will depend on the way it is done. Congress is not likely ever to abandon any part of its prerogatives in tariff making, but a body of advisers who have the general confidence of the country cannot fail to exert a powerful influence. Of the capacity of Professor Taussig there can be no question. No living American economist surpasses him in achievement or reputation. Doubtless those who like the old way of tariff-making--a compromise among selfish interests--would call him a "theorist." So he is; so any student of so intricate...
...this came the invocation, and then the inaugural address. In a masterly speech, the subject of which was "The Future of the American College," the new president propounded his own ideas of the functions and the purpose of the college in this country, and of the influence it should exert upon, and the support it should receive from the men whom it has sent forth into the world. In reference to the speech the Dartmouth says, "The entire address seemed an expression of the new president's policy, a forecast of the future of Dartmouth as carried out under...
...quarter of 48 seconds was made by Reidpath of Syracuse in 1912 and was equalled by Meredith last year. The collegiate record for a straight track of 47 3-4 seconds, made by W. Baker '86, has stood since 1886. W. Willcox, Jr., '17 pushed the Pennsylvania captain to exert himself to the limit on the long straightaway, but the latter came through on the final stretch with an unbeatable record-breaking sprint...
...announcement that the manuscripts for the Bowdoin and the Garrison prizes are due today emphasizes an undue hardship imposed upon the undergraduate competitor. With his eleventh-hour method of work, he invariably is obliged to exert his efforts to the utmost to complete the manuscript within the required time. But the hour examinations come at this period as spectral interruptions. That he will neglect in the last few days of the competition the essential revision of his manuscript and devote himself to the examinations seems improbable...