Word: enlightenment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before have I felt like kissing the editor on both cheeks as when I read in the current issue his matchless rejoinder to a supercilious fanatic anent the use of an innocuous expletive. It served him right, for he betrays a mentality which even TIME can never hope to enlighten...
...uncritical of their professions, but there are the best instructive sources that can be offered at the moment. The "dame school of experience" is surely the best way to educate a man in the ways of his profession, but much can be done, and much should be done, to enlighten those who have had, as yet, no chance to avail themselves of that experience...
...novels reflect this sombre tone, and in one the moor itself assumes a vigorous personality, becomes a definite character. Today Mr. Hersey will talk in Emerson 211 at 2 o'clock upon the Hardy Country. He has taken many new pictures during the last summer which will enlighten the provincial and refresh the memory of the cosmopolite. Mr. Hersey has the great gift of combining the country of which he talks with the characters about which the authors have written. The result is that Tess lives her tragic life before you, and you pause with Mr. Hersey to watch...
...cast about to find someone to enlighten him on the subject, but to no avail. Days past and no one appeared to dissipate the abysmal ignorance of the Vagabond. At last, after weeks of anxious waiting, succor arrived. Today at ten o'clock he will go to Emerson H there to hear Professor Sarton lecture on Pasteur. The Vagabond doesn't know much about Pasteur, but he has a vague and tenuous idea that he was a doctor, or a scientist or a medical man of some ability. He also had something to do with pasteurized milk, which the Vagabond...
...observer watches a vast throng pushing through an amusement district. By the law of averages he knows that a certain proportion will attend one theatre, other proportions other theatres. But he cannot tell which person will enter any particular theatre. Many of the people themselves could not enlighten him. Whim or the pressure of the crowd might change their direction...