Word: enlighten
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Sirs: ... It might not be amiss here to enlighten you as to who you were dealing with and possibly you will get a smile out of the affair as well as I. San Quentin happens to be in itself a very small little town but whenever anyone ever refers to San Quentin everyone else knows that they mean the State Prison and we are a little city by ourselves of some 3,500 inhabitants at the present time find growing right along. Personally I came here in 1922 to serve a sentence of 25 years but due to the humanity...
...longer living in the dark ages before the time of Florence Nightingale, and nursing standards and ideals have kept apace with, if not excelled, those of the medical profession. A perusal of a history of nursing or a visit to any of our modern hospitals would enlighten you regarding one of the greatest professions in the world, and prevent another such faux...
...field of concentration, printed in a recent issue of the CRIMSON seems to belie the picture that should be conveyed to the innocent mind of the "Rookie". It may be the impression of many men supposedly typical of those in the field, but I think that it fails to enlighten the freshmen as to the facts. This criticism is not diverted to the so-called "professional" who enters the field in the hope of attaining a knowledge of English literature that would qualify him for the higher degrees. The amateur is the man who should take heed, else the English...
...arguments thus advanced on both sides indicate that the issue has become political in nature. While that is neither avoidable nor to be deprecated in a democracy, it has a tendency to becloud the issue by generating waves of emotional morality which confuse rather than enlighten. It is believed that an analysis of the problem in the light of the professions of both sides may serve a useful purpose...
...have taken part in many heated discussions about Madame Sans Gene and, knowing you have put many minds at ease in the past, I trust you will be able to enlighten me on this subject. Is there any accent on the last "e" in Gene? And did such a person ever exist or was she merely a fictitious character? I have digested dictionaries. Lives of Napoleon" and Encyclopedias and still remain in total darkness...