throw light upon

“That certainly should throw light upon the matter. An extraordinary country America.”

“It is only to ask you if you saw or heard anything last night that may throw light upon this matter.”

“Its mechanism, however, was and still is shrouded in profound obscurity. All human resources—art, religion, literature, philosophy, and the historical sciences—all have joined in the attempt to throw light upon this darkness. But humanity has at its disposal yet another powerful resource—natural science with its strict objective methods.”

Statues, inscriptions, memorial stones, the names of streets—anything that might throw light upon the past had been systematically altered.

Von Sinzig had seen to that, for directly the German airship left New Zealand he gave orders that on no account were messages to be transmitted, but on the other hand, the receivers were to be constantly in use, in order to pick up any radiograms that might throw light upon the movements of the "Golden Hind."