Word: apprehend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whole chronicle of parliaments. The sensation at Belgrade, last week, cannot be put in words. Yet in the Balkans incidents almost as scandalous occur not infrequently. Therefore, last week, "nothing happened"-except that two investigations were started: one to plumb the alleged iniquities of the police; the other to apprehend those responsible for introducing a naked man into Parliament...
Some time ago, having "dedicated his life to Science" after a course at Harvard, Mr. Burden read in a bulletin of the British Museum an exhortation to sportsmen to apprehend specimens of the giant lizard reported by P. A. Ouwens, a Dutch hunter, in 1912. (The Duke of Mecklinburg shot a specimen 20 ft. long.) Mr. Burden organized an expedition, including Mrs. Burden, Professor E. R. Dunn of Smith College and one de Fosse, French huntsman. They reached Komodo last June via China. The British flyer, Alan Cobham, stopped at Komodo en route from England to Australia (TIME...
Manufacturer H. H. ("Roller Bearings") Timken, Owner James M. Cox of the Canton Daily News (who lives in Dayton), the Scripps-Howard newspaper syndicate, and others, subscribed thousands at once to apprehend the murderers. The U. S. district attorney set about collecting relevant material from statements made to him last March when Mellett testified in a Canton narcotics case-statements by Mellett that he had been threatened specifically by the Canton police and "vice lords" for "inter-fering." The public learned more about one "Harry-the-Greek" Bouklias and one Harry Turner, convicted perjurers and underworld go-betweens, whose release...
Many people who know nothing and are capable of understanding less about sculpture are excited by the beauty that they instantly apprehend in Rodin; they grasp without effort subtleties of intention that the sophisticated perceive only tortuously, after elaborate reasoning. There is more in this fact than an illustration of the theory that only a stupid man has any capacity for learning. It contains two secrets of Rodin's brooding intellect that 'are also the secrets of his popularity...
...sale of alcoholic beverages was legal, but subject to a tax. The Bureau of Internal Revenue, under the Treasury Department, collected the tax. From time almost immemorial, the mountaineers of the East and South attempted to evade this levy. Revenue agents from the Bureau were accordingly sent to apprehend the evaders...