Word: enlighten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...members of the West High School faculty, we want to congratulate TIME Magazine upon the informative article entitled "The Governor and the Schools" ... It will enlighten people of all states on the way one man has tried to destroy education, which is the very foundation of democracy, for the sake of economy...
...Marshall his arguments and set them down, the marking process will be slowed considerably. But the value in a detailed reply by the grader outweighs the expense and time involved. Examinations can do many things. They can separate knowers from guessers. But to be thoroughly useful, a test must enlighten the student as well as evaluate his past work. If the graders had to back up their decision with an opinion, careful evaluation of essays would be better insured. It is time for examination books to be out from in front of fireplaces and back in the hands...
...hope to enlighten the general public as to the danger of communism and subversion, and evaluate what and whether law can help," Mrs. Newman added...
...member of the armed services, I am faced, for the first time in my life, with a group of men who are near illiterates. They do not read to enlighten themselves, or to inform, or even to entertain. If it hasn't got pictures, most of them are stuck. What is the result? In a first-class bureaucracy like the modern army or navy or air force, with its myriad regulations which one must be able to interpret and analyze to get along, we have boys who do not know what they are doing, or why, and never will...
True Liberal Republicans must today be joining in the chorus of quiet tut tuts from the throats of harassed News editors of the past three years. Who have stood shoulder to shoulder with their brethren in Cambridge in the battle to enlighten their less progressive campusmates. John Steadman 1L ex-Chairman Yale Dally News...