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Word: enlightened (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meanderings from the Baptist Church, through the Episcopal to Roman Catholicism, permit me to make this comment: I rejoice in the freedom of my particular denomination (Methodist) in that, in obedience to Our Lord's words, it refuses "binding pronouncements" on matters wherein our own intelligence should enlighten and lead; and therefore, I have no desire to flee from this freedom into any system of theological or intellectual bondage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 9, 1952 | 6/9/1952 | See Source »

...Miss Louisa had kept him hidden through all the long years of war, draft-boards, ration books and national registration could only be guessed at. Some neighbors gossiped that he was Rose's illegitimate son, hidden to avoid family scandal. Louisa herself could not enlighten them. She was carried off to a local hospital with a paralyzing cerebral hemorrhage. Nor could Henry. Scrubbed and trimmed, he was being cared for in a mental hospital only a mile or two away. He knew he had lived through a war, he said, because he had heard bombs; he had been told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Man at the Window | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

Roger V. Pugh, Jr. '51, 11., a Social Relations major, submitted a thesis last spring entitled "The Drinking Habits of the Harvard Man" which should enlighten those who have speculated long and often on this subject...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thesis Uncovers Guzzling Habits of College, Finds 13.5 Percent of Students Big Boozers | 12/1/1951 | See Source »

...industry has a responsibility to its public, and how well the industry is assuming that responsibility by its emphasis on war pictures is a matter of dispute. The urge to satisfy public demand in terms of box office sales does not always mesh with the urge to improve and enlighten...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From the Pit | 2/17/1951 | See Source »

...idea for Rex Morgan's current sequence came from a Roman Catholic priest. He suggested to Presbyterian Curtis a few months ago that people do not know enough about euthanasia or what the real issues are. Curtis decided to enlighten his readers as he has before on cancer quacks, police and psychology. All have brought a flood of mail from medical men. The letter that Curtis prizes most came from Dr. Charles S. Cameron, medical and scientific director of the American Cancer Society Inc. Wrote Dr. Cameron: "May I compliment you on the splendid service you are rendering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Operation on the Doctor | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

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