Word: enlightenment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although somewhat hardened to TIME'S well-known but inane penchant for stressing the physical peculiarities of personages named in its columns, I cannot possibly comprehend how you can justify the utter cruelty of the sentences above quoted. Perhaps you will enlighten...
...woman, who by active participation in politics," concluded the gubernatorial candidate, "aids in this manner to enlighten the community regarding its public affairs is performing a distinct public service. If the day ever comes when we have a complete roan-lightened electorate, the day of misgovernment will have gone forever...
...Please enlighten...
...Observatory. One day was solemn. The seers of the heavens trooped before a big, partially completed building to watch & hear Professor Harlow Shapley, head of the Harvard Observatory, place some Pickering photographs in a copper box with some other documents. This, he said, he was doing to enlighten astronomers five centuries from now as to how far advanced the present-day astronomer...
Hirohito was not crowned. Instead, upon his father's death in 1926 he assumed protection of Japan's three Sacred Treasures: The Sword which commands "Be Brave!" The Jewel which says "Enlighten thyself!" and the Most Sacred Mirror of the Sun Goddess Amaterasu-Omikami which enjoins "Know thyself...