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Word: enlightens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, many of the proctors don't know what to do with the prefects, and the prefects don't have a clue what their role is. The FDO runs a couple of "training sessions" which are supposed to enlighten prefects and suggest ways to interact with freshmen, but the first one was so boring and of so little value that I didn't bother going to the second--which took place three months later...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Perfectly Useless | 3/17/1987 | See Source »

Newspapers and networks are in the business of selling advertisers an audience. Their product must sell before it can enlighten. News operations are continuously trying to guage the public's preferences, and with varying degree of sensitivity, they tailor their products to match. Competition makes it difficult for news organizations not go give the public what it wants...

Author: By David S. Hilzenrath, | Title: Caveat Emptor | 7/9/1985 | See Source »

...fabricators were foreign born. For both producer and consumer, this was education in the dark. Though many film entrepreneurs of the first generation were native born, they were soon replaced by a bazaar of movie merchants who had arrived in the U.S. barely before the masses they hoped to enlighten. The roll call of Jewish-immigrant moguls has since become its own Hollywood legend: Adolph Zukor, the Hungarian who had worked as janitor in a Manhattan fur store (president of Paramount Pictures); Carl Laemmle, the bookkeeper from Germany (founder, Universal Pictures); Samuel Goldwyn, the glove salesman from Warsaw (founder, Goldwyn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Magic Shadows From a Melting Pot for New Americans, the Movies Offered the Ticket for Assimilation | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

...elderly, and this letter is to enlighten you about what women have suffered in their long battle for reproductive freedom . . . When I was a student at the University of Arkansas, I was an acquaintance of a very popular and attractive student there. She became pregnant. Because the attitude of the scarlet letter was still prevalent, without telling her parents, she had an illegal abortion. She died a terrible death from septicemia. Friends told me how she literally chewed up her tongue and screamed in agony . . . You want to take girls back to those days of death and horror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Silent No More | 5/27/1985 | See Source »

...team. We have turned the tide for basketball at Harvard, brought fans to games both at home and on the road, gained national publicity, and challenged for the Ivy title the last two season. What happence last Saturday needs no further explanation. However I did deem it necessary to enlighten Mr.Cunha on several parts of his "article" I just hope in the future he does his homework before he writes a story. Misrepresentation and slop process are not ways to start a career with The Crimson. Joe Carrabino Co-Captain Harvard Men's Basketball Team

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Misrepresentation | 2/27/1985 | See Source »

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