Word: enlighten
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...permit me to enlighten your omniscient Religious Editor. The command to put the blood of the pascal lamb on the two door-posts and on the lintel (Exodus 12, 7) was meant only for that one time, i. e. the time of the actual exodus. This is the accepted opinion of all Talmudic authorities and it is also self evident, since the mark was meant as a signal for the destroying-angel who killed the first born of Egypt to pass over the houses of the Israelites, hence, in subsequent generations when there was no destroying-angel killing Egyptian first...
...encyclopedia does not enlighten me-hence I turn to you for the correct information...
...swear to support the Constitution of the United States. I pledge myself as a Catholic citizen and a Knight of Columbus to enlighten myself fully upon my duties as a citizen and to conscientiously perform such duties entirely in the interests of my country and regardless of all personal consequences. I pledge myself to do all in my power to preserve the integrity and purity of the ballot, to promote reverence and respect for law and order. I promise to practice my religion openly and consistently, but without ostentation, and to so conduct myself in public affairs...
Those who found this explanation difficult to understand would have been able to enlighten themselves by perusing the current issue of the Christian Century, wherein Dr. Jefferson discoursed on "Why I Have Found Life Worth Living." Said he: "I came into the world with an indestructible liking for work. This impulse in me to work shows no signs of abating. I have always loved work more than play. ... It is only when I am tremendously busy that my happiness mounts to rapture. And so when I look forward to heaven, it is to me a place of work...
...reestablished with statesmen in foreign countries kept him intimately in touch with the world-wide movements. We have all lost a great teacher, and a friend who because of the nobility of his character was particularly qualified to interpret the affairs of other nations and so to enlighten his own countrymen...