Word: exert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unity as was buce feared) and another change, the removal of the Dana-Palmer House in order to clear ground for the Lamont Undergraduate Library created a commotion that forced the authorities to alter their plans. But if the Alumni are a conservative force, they are also loath to exert active pressure on College officials. The word of the President or the Provost is generally, if not always, accepted as most authoritative by the hardest-bitten grad...
...undergraduate delegates, to be chosen in the dining halls at noon today, will proceed to the National Student Conference at Chicago where they will join the representatives of some two-hundred other American student bodies in drawing up plans for a permanent national student organization. The Chicago meeting can exert a strong influence both on the future of education at home and on the position of students throughout the world. This is important work, and the student body must choose carefully from the ten candidates, whose qualifications will be summarized on the ballot, if the delegation...
Should the Democrats lose control of the legislature Republican forces would exert vital power in committee to augment the blocks they could throw at Administration measures on the Congressional floor. In the Upper House, Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, who has consistently inaugurated, sponsored, and voted for measures designed to strangle price- control, would assume chairmanship of the Finance Committee. Behind the padded doors of a committee chamber, Taft would have power to do more than merely east another vote. With a record distinguished by support of the relinquishing of claims on tideland oil, and by his effort...
...such action will be presented when the United Nations General Assembly meets on October 23. The Spanish problem is certain to be on the agenda. Perhaps nothing more than a dearth of fresh air will result from these deliberations; but if the U.N. passes up this chance to exert moral, economic, or military pressure upon the only remaining Fascist axis, it will have wasted its most convenient opportunity to prove that the nations of the world are able to work together to secure peace...
...Fellow Traveler Jo Davidson's outfit, can, by questionable talent and shallow showmanship, exert its unique leverage on the American electorate, then that electorate must assume full responsibility for the damage inflicted upon the governmental structure by the brand of visionary, leftist young pinks who will enter public office...