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Word: enlighten (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...almost any sort of intellectual activity. For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all student, a liberal arts education works in subtle ways to create a web of knowledge that will illumine problems and enlighten judgment on innumerable occasions in later life...

Author: By Derek C. Bok, | Title: Clearing the Blurs in Education | 2/6/1973 | See Source »

...Please enlighten an unenlightened Jew. How many Israelis have to be slaughtered and permanently maimed to justify "reaction" - and how many slaughtered and maimed to result in "overreaction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 24, 1972 | 7/24/1972 | See Source »

Perhaps the Crimson or someone else at Harvard can enlighten...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HERRNSTEIN AND JENSEN WHY PUBLICITY? | 5/17/1972 | See Source »

...discourse at enormous length but never with enough musical depth to make themselves or their arguments convincing. Unlike most of his contemporaries, Eaton knows how to use an orchestra; his is big and tactful, never swamping the singers, but it only comments on the action. It does nothing to enlighten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Campus Honors | 5/1/1972 | See Source »

...bigger, louder, more expensive than ever, even if the latest campaign-spending-limitation bill becomes law. It is airplanes, polls and delegate counts. It is cocktail parties, TV cameras and ghostwriters. The campaign of '72 just might expend more national energy and resources than any in history and enlighten the people less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Toward a Better Presidential Campaign | 1/31/1972 | See Source »

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