Word: extort
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Treaty of 1818 technically enforced is relied upon as instrumentality to extort reciprocity from the United States.- Jay's Fishing Question, 6-13; Bayard's Letter in Foreign Relations...
...Columbia! that you should have come to this. Not content with your experience of last year, your glorious (?) victory of two years ago, you must extort this resolution from our willing faculty, ready to yield anything to any college, however unimportant, that had the hardihood to ask. The authority of dozens of races, won in the last mile, of hosts of crew men, who have rowed in four-mile races and are still "alive," is as nothing beside the desire to propitiate everybody. Princeton and Columbia, according to common report, have succeeded in gaining concessions from Harvard. We should like...
Edward T. Smith, a law student at Charlotte, has begun a suit against Olivet College for $10,000 damages, claimed to have been sustained by the action of the faculty in suspending him from the college on false charges. Smith claims that the faculty undertook to extort money from him in settlement of a groundless charge, and, not succeeding, suspended him and he was obliged to leave school. It is understood that he will also begin suits against two or three members of the faculty personally, unless their further services shall be dispensed with by the board of trustees...