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Word: enlivening (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their rich heritage. Tonight in Boston's streets, citizens will gather together in hearty bands. Glorious pageantry will ensue. Some will take the part of the British; some will don quaint Gaelic costumes and take up the storied shillelagh. And the famous contests of former days will once more enliven local byways, as the loyal sons of the sod relive the glories of Saint Patrick and the defeat of the Orangemen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Saint Patrick's Day | 3/17/1949 | See Source »

...being Christian not Communist . . . We aren't opposed to Communists who expect social betterment . . . but the purely materialistic view which discards spiritual values, leads to the dictatorship of a single class and to the concentration of this dictatorship finally in the hands of a single man . . . May Christianity enliven all that is Christian in Communism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: God on Trial | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...portraits, Haskian says, will become the property of the players, when they graduate from College. He is currently trying to get the entire Varsity to autograph the Vince Moravec drawing to enliven his home...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pics of Crimson Gridiron Greats Adorn Mens Shop | 10/31/1947 | See Source »

...earlier death rays was that no known source of radiation was strong enough to kill at a distance. But atom bombs do kill by radiation, mostly heat and gamma rays. If a method is developed to concentrate nuclear radiations into a narrow beam, death rays may be available to enliven World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Death Rays Deferred | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

...events promised to enliven the U.N.'s opening session at Lake Success (L.I.): 1) Russia's stern-faced Delegate Andrei Gromyko had been caught smiling (see cut); 2) after a 5,500-mile journey, the Mongol delegates had arrived. The cause of Gromyko's smile: U.S. comic strips. Occasion of the Mongols' visit: the question of Outer Mongolia's admission (together with Albania, Portugal, Eire, Iceland, Sweden, Afghanistan and Trans-Jordan) to the U.N. Result (after a stormy exchange between U.S. Delegate Herschel Vespasian Johnson and an unsmiling Gromyko) : three admissions (Afghanistan, Sweden, Iceland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: Socks | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

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