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Word: enlightens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 2, 1933 | 1/2/1933 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YOUNGMAN STRESSES NEED OF ENLIGHTENED CITIZENRY IN POLITICS | 10/15/1932 | See Source »

...Please enlighten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 10, 1932 | 10/10/1932 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Astronomers in a Wood | 9/19/1932 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Divinity with Microscope | 6/6/1932 | See Source »

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