Word: wield
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theirs, said he, to inaugurate a program, nor to wield the stamp of approval on others' programs. It was theirs to help the U. S. decide whether or not to " pursue the old paths of local, so-called national self-interest or to venture upon the highway of international coöperation...
Referring to the American Owen D. Young, who helped form the Experts' Report under the presidency of the American Charles G. Dawes, the Neue Berliner Zeitung said that in his capacity as agent of reparations he would wield more power than ever did Wilhelm Hohenzollern in the youth of his glory. Under the heading "His Majesty, Owen I," the paper referred to him as "the secret Emperor of Germany...
...have been added as a result of Mid-year grades, seems to indicate with no little degree of certainty that probation has not aided many men in raising their scholastic rank. Certainly it was of no marked advantage to the fifty men who were dropped. And to continue to wield an instrument whose discipline does not accomplish the purpose intended is paternalism in excessive and unscientific doses...
...Matthew Luee '91, Edward Waldo Forbes '95, John Lewis Bremer '96, George Henry Chase '96, John Homans '99, Paul Jeseph Sachs '00, Henry Aaron Yeomans '00, Henry Lyman '01, Francis Wells Hunnewell '02, Roger Irving Lee '02, Henry Asbury Christian, G. '03, John Livingston Lowes, G. '03, Francis Wield Peabody '03, Chandler Rathfon Post '04, Austin Wakeman Scott, L. '09, James Waterhouse Angell '18, Robert Earle Bacon, G. '18, David Mason Little, Jr. '18, Delmar Leighton '19, and Donald Kirk David...
...benevolent indifference." This at any rate goes too far. There is certainly nothing the college man would rather do; but, except with a few exceedingly superior persons, this ambition has been but lamely realized. It is much too difficult to acquire such philosophic poise when these same professors wield a power over one's destiny comparable to the of the notable Kublai Khan, or the former Caliph of Bagbad...