Word: enlightenement
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Called "Teacher" by her onetime pupils, Sculptor Putnam aimed to enlighten the layman and at the same time to provide a technical guide for students, especially girls, who seldom get a chance at apprenticeship in a sculptor's studio. By a happy omission of professional cant and a handsome use of good drawings and photographs, she puts across pleasantly much that a manual would desiccate...
...very tower which is furnished only with books or laboratory apparatus; there are others which are enriched by broad human sympathies and experience. Although a university lives within walls as a world apart, there must be perpetual commerce with the world outside in order that the university may both enlighten and be nourished by the civilization of its time and place...
...week in Philadelphia's Franklin Institute, where engineers of Bell Telephone Laboratories and a trained operator demonstrated a complicated electronic device called Voder (short for "voice operation demonstrator"). Voder creates a variety of sounds resembling human speech closely enough to be easily intelligible. It is intended to flabbergast, enlighten and amuse visitors to this year's world's fairs in San Francisco and New York City...
...radio. He gets news only from bazaar gossip on market days, loses even that source when impassable roads through the four-month rainy season keep him home. So for three years All-India Radio (controlled by the Indian Government) has been trying to figure out a broadcasting scheme to enlighten rural India...
...Department's conception of the ruling, and he failed to canvass the opinions of qualified persons outside the Department as to the merits of the candidates for promotion. At best, the Dean was a poor mediator between the Department and Mr. Conant, who himself made no attempt to enlighten the matter through clarification...