Word: enlivenment
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...secret number, which serves the Telephone Company as a check on repaired phones, has become public property since a student spent several hours of idleness trying out different combinations. He guarantees it to enliven an already joyous evening. If the number should not work, the investigator should dial eight instead of nine since Cambridge phones are divided into two classes...
...duty. I will do mine . . ." so spake His Grace, Charles Duke of Burgundy, early on the morning of the Battle of Paris some five hundred years age. And so the Vagabond, at ten o'clock this morning will journey to Sever $3 to hear Mr. Kelsey enliven the routine of French A as he presents delightful hits from French history...
...effectively maintained: that teaching and research are inextricably connected. While there are doubtless some few men who make inspiring teachers, and are yet temperamentally unfitted to carry the burden of investigation and creative study, such cases are rare indeed. There are few preceptors whose minds continual research does not enliven, stimulate and constantly refresh; and the most pitiful man on the faculty is the one whose natural talents were once great and whose personality was inspiring, but who has atrophied through failure to take constant nourishment at the spring of creative scholarship...
...were not the Yard pigeons puffing themselves out in proud glory, and were not the board walks taken up? And did not the spring zephyrs ruffle delightfully the surface of the Charles and the dresses of the doxies along its banks? But no more could these aphrodisiacs of spring enliven him, for now they aroused within him a palling cloud of defensive inactivity, which made the light breeze seem vicious, the caressing sunlight tropical, and even the grass like brittle spicules of rock...
...fencing exhibition by Joseph Levis, national and Olympic champion, and Richard Walker, captain of the 1932 fencing team, will be one of the high spots of the Lucky Charity Ball which will enliven time-worn Memorial Hall Friday night. The other highlights will include a Fashion Review, a concert by the Harvard Alumni Chorus, and music by the Boston Commanders...