Word: enlightened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wished that some time in the course might be spent on the non-Euclidian geometries of Lobachersky and Rieman, which have received so much popular notoriety, and upon a few other modern developments of geometry about which those who have studied some mathematics would like to be able to enlighten their friends...
...Both major presidential candidates were attended throughout the campaign by A. P. reportresses, to enlighten women voters...
...India the intellectual classes were egoists and Buddha could not altogether enlighten them. Still he did not wish entirely to withhold his teachings. So he taught them the Hinayana (Little Vehicle) which was best suited to their intellectual capacities...
...would be interesting to know just .how many similar awards have been made, and in whose favor. I cannot but wonder just what qualifications one must have in order to share in this Senatorial graft. Can TIME enlighten me-and some intimate friends with whom I have discussed this matter...
...Story. Arnold Blettsworthy, newly weaned from Oxford, not only affianced himself to the tobacconist's yellow-haired daughter, but joined forces with his best friend in a project to enlighten the world through a chain of bright blue bookshops. Cheated by the friend, jilted by the tobacconist's daughter, Blettsworthy's disillusion affected him so desperately that his kindly solicitor-guardian prescribed the traditional remedy-a year on the high seas...