Word: exert
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...protested against the burning of the Library at Louvain, and that you endeavored to secure protection and that you endeavored to secure protection and such treatment as you now request for the professors of the universities in the Belgian and French territory occupied by the Germans, then I will exert any influence that I may possess to procure the return of your personal property...
...prove to me that you protested against the burning of the Library at Louvain, and that you endeavored to secure protection and such treatment as you now request for the professors of the universities in the Belgian and French territory occupied by the Germans, then I will exert any influence that I may possess to procure the return of your personal scientific property...
Statistics of the College show that each year over half of the total enrolment is made up of Massachusetts men and a very large percent of the men are from New England. Unless Harvard wishes to become a "local university" she must exert some effort to induce more Westerners and Southerners to come to her doors...
...nose this last time which makes me wheeze, when I walk, like an old accordion and also raised a few blisters on my face, neck and chest--but fortunately did not get into my eyes very much or hit me hard enough to make much trouble, unless I over-exert...
...more than one defect worthy of attention in our system of education; it seemed to me that collegiate opinion on matters of vital importance had for too long a time been moribund; it seemed to me that it was the duty of those who remained at home to exert themselves in their feeble or feeble-minded way in an effort to solve one of the many problems that will confront them after the war; but in all this seeming I was wrong,--Mr. Prosser says...