Word: exerts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dealers have been seeing in the window from almost the very beginning. One does not have to be an authority on constitutional law to see the complete invalidity of the N.R.A. Not only did Congress delegate legislative powers to the President, but what is more important, it endeavored to exert its control over business which was clearly not interstate commerce...
That British peace dove, elder Statesman Sir Austen Chamberlain, Knight of the Garter, Nobel Peace Prizeman and co-author of the Locarno Peace Pact (TIME, Oct. 26, 1925): "If Germany will not be a member of the family, if instead of seeking to negotiate she intends to exert her Will, she will find this country in her path again, and with this country the great free commonwealths [dominions] that cluster around it. And she will have met a force that once again will be her master...
...Since the Royal person will be indispensable at jubilee observances all summer, doctors busied themselves last week with the 69-year-old King-Emperor who has resolved to exert himself once more to the very limit. Absolute rest until just before the Jubilee was the physicians' prescription. Where to get it? Since George V is adamant in his yearly decision ("I will not go to the French Riviera or anywhere outside of England"), Their Majesties graciously accepted last week the loan of an English mansion, no palace, from the Duke of Devonshire whose wife is Queen Mary...
...carrying capacity of any of the three railroads which spur into its West Homestead plant outside Pittsburgh. Castings weighing 165 tons have been poured in its foundries and machined in its shops. One of its prides is a gigantic press built for a Navy armor works that will exert a pressure of 14,000 tons. It has gear nobbing and planing machines for finishing gear wheels up to 17-ft. in diameter...
...glow on, my Harvard brethren, and go ye in bands of six or more to the Copley Theatre. There ye are allowed, nay, even urged, to exert your exuberance in any manner short of breaking chairs. Fit buit for your witty sallies is that touching dra-a-ama, resurrected in all its pristine glory from P.T. Barnum's American Museum, vintage 18 34,--I speak of "The Drunkard, or the Fallen Saved". Ye may hiss the deep-dyed villian, Lawyer Cribbs; ye may shout "Look out," or "Youse is a viper," as he prepares to enmesh in his toils that...