Word: exert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ultimate consequences of this shift of emphasis concerning the individual student will become, if the new tendency is long continued, very extensive. It can scarcely fall to exert a modifying effect upon the whole structure of American college education. Less and less faith will be placed, for example, in the importance of lectures, and more and more regard will be given to all those efforts which the student is led to undertake largely upon his own initiative to wit, energetic collateral and "outside" reading, debate among his fellows, and direct learning from qualified preceptors. In short, American colleges and universities...
...Great Creed of Inaction", and Mr. Farrar's ideal lies in the other direction. "The truly wise man ignores reputation; the perfect man ignores self; the divine man ignores action." This is but the dictum of Chuang Tizu, the greatest of Taoist philosophers, and Taoism does not exert any very remarkable influence in this country; it can be no more than a suggestion. But even a suggestion that there is more than mere laziness in the American inertia is not to be lightly cast aside...
...between cancer and nutrition. Scientists of the National Nutrition Institute of Japan have been able to produce cancer in rats by giving them foods deficient in vitamin A. This is the second time that cancer has been produced experimentally in living organisms, and according to Dr. Dayton, it will exert a vital influence on the study of the disease...
...KENWORTHYS-Margaret Wilson -Harper ($2.00). The lives of some commonfolk are here dammed up into tragedy by the rather rickety proposition that it is dishonorable for a man to exert any extra-legal effort to recover, from his rich, reprehensible, divorced wife, the custody of their unhappy child. Author Wilson* was awarded the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for the simplicity and directness of The Able McLaughlins. Simple in diction is The Kenworthys and fairly direct in presentation. But only a patient reader will penetrate the morasses of reiterative dialog, will take the scanted, arbitrary motives on faith, will 'ignore loose...
...Americans were eliminated in the singles until only Casey and Hennessey were left. Finally Casey fell before Rene La Coste, the 1924 French Davis Cup player. J. O. Anderson, the Australian veteran, was twice driven to exert himself; once was within a point of losing his match...