Word: exerts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Practice for the Army Tests" put it: "To get the job you want or to become an officer you don't have to be a college graduate, belong to 'society' or exert political influence." To the uninitiated reader, both manuals picture armed services in which every man is continually taking tests by which he rises rapidly upward to the proper level in the job for which he is most suited. The theory is beautiful...
Spokesmen for universities should exert their influence to secure the inclusion of a new educational "G.I. Bill" in any military training act which may be passed. George Giblan 4G Teaching Fellow in English
...must stake its future on sea and air power, not land power, which could be sucked into Europe and Asia and be destroyed. U.S. sea and air power should be made strong and flexible enough to balance all the military might Russia can assemble, flexible enough to exert great control over "the rest of the world and over the enemy country." Said Taft: "If the Russians realize that that power cannot be challenged and can do real damage to their own nation with the atomic bomb and otherwise, their purpose of military aggression may well wither and peaceful relations...
Rogers suggested that an international body of educators might come to exert a considerable moral force in the world on such an issue as academic freedom...
...American people . . . will make no efforts for a common defense unless their [European] partners value their freedom so high that they are willing to exert all their forces. Obviously, the U.S. will invest strong forces in Germany only if the Germans themselves participate in the defense of their country...