Word: apprehend
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...feared by some that the intercollegiate athletic contests of the present day are tending more and more to make the greater number of students take exercise only vicariously. To those who apprehend a danger in this tendency, any effort to provide a game in which a large number of men can obtain active, agreeable exercise will commend itself...
...authority of the Bible is the authority of its truth as we apprehend it, and not the authority of accuracy alone. There is a broad distinction between these theories. The old theory is that the books themselves were inspired but the new theory teaches that men were inspired who led religious lives, taught Christianity and who incidentally wrote the books...