Word: enlighten
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...part, the Committee has decided to publish in the Harvard Alumni Bulletin a series of brief articles on various phases of the University in which it is thought that the alumni will be interested, each prepared by an expert on the subject. It is hoped that they will both enlighten and hearten the alumni. No graduate who understands the present greatness of Harvard will be shaken in his allegiance by temporary disappointments, however grievous they may seem for the moment. For Harvard goes steadily forward...
...Such calumnies cannot remain unpunished. He who so speaks outside of Spain and who has on no occasion risked his life for her is an enemy to his flag. May God be pleased to enlighten this bad patriot and pardon him the wrong he has done Spain...
...ROUGHNECK-Robert W. Service-Barse and Hopkins ($2.00). " 'Fire, damn you.' . . . 'Hurry,' she cried to the policeman, 'Get help! He's sinking!' . . . 'Hell,' said Jones. Then he cornered Arootoo! . . ." Such statements, several to the page, enlighten this novel by Robert W. Service, loud versifier. The narrative concerns one Jerry Delane, whose career as a respectable member of society is cut short by an unjust imprisonment for safecracking. He becomes a pug, a hobo, a beachcomber, breaks noses in Frisco, hearts in Papeete. All these things Mr. Service has himself experienced...
...Republican, Democratic, and La Follette Clubs have united on one question. They are all agreed that something must be done to enlighten those men who, having reached voting age, are entitled to cast their ballots but who are away from home...
...that the shower of annual company reports covering the entire calendar year of 1923 has abated, considerable criticism has arisen concerning the real significance of the facts which they set forth, and their power in their present form to deceive instead of enlighten the investing public...