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Word: enlightens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your excellent pictures and too short an article on tree farming [Jan. 17] should enlighten those who tear through our northwest states exclaiming, "How awful! Cutting and wasting those beautiful trees!" Nature can only do so much with her mature trees; if they aren't harvested before they rot, they are a loss...We continue to "keep Washington green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 7, 1955 | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

...Offered a fake Renoir. Lucas Edgerton feels for the first time a genuine enthusiasm-rather than mere acquisitive excitement-for a picture; and one of Playwright Kurnitz's twists is that, seeing the boss so jubilantly bamboozled. Edgerton's own cowed, stoogelike expert lacks the courage to enlighten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Oct. 18, 1954 | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

From Tibet came word that the Dalai Lama, 19, whose country was grabbed by China's Communists in 1951, had departed his capital city of Lhasa to journey a long, sad way to Peking, where his secular masters will presumably try to enlighten the priest-king about the joys of cooperation with their regime. His brainwashing is expected to require from six to ten months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 2, 1954 | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

After a careful study of the Randall Report on foreign trade, a group of 17 top economists condemned it in a pamphlet published last week for its "want of basic philosophy and for its failure to assert American leadership or to enlighten the American people as to their international responsibilities and opportunities. [It is] not a document from which the nation could derive inspiration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Attack on the Randall Report | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

...initiate this experience, to cultivate it, to enlighten it with technical resource, these are the duty, but still more, the privilege of the conductor...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: Doc' Davison: Faith in Worthwhile Music | 3/27/1954 | See Source »

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