Word: apprehended
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...identified by three women, presumably victims of his attacks. There was absolutely lacking any proof of these twenty-eight alleged attacks--the facts are merely alleged, and no alleged fact without supporting evidence can or does stand before the law. If it was impossible to secure evidence or apprehend the offender it is a reflection on the Omaha officials, and they should be replaced; but this I can scarcely believe. The alternative is that no such attacks occurred, and they have been merely alleged. At all events, it still rests with the accusers to produce the evidence and the facts...
...Here the acting was so good as to make the illusion complete, and one became absorbed wholly in the story. It is a tale of the Civil War, but that threadbare theme appears for once in a new and surprising form. The principal character a woman too dull to apprehend the great meanings of the conflict, too apathetic to be moved by the peril of thirty thousand men, is by an insult which would seem comparatively trivial to others, but which wounds her only pride, suddenly turned into a fury of righteousness, and, without knowing it, becomes a national heroine...
...Tagore began his lecture with a quotation from the Upanished or Scriptures, "Man becomes truly a man if in this life he can apprehend God; if not, it is the greatest calamity for him." The infinite is not a concrete thing which man can acquire and add to his possessions; he can never find Brahma, for Brahma himself is everywhere; what he must do is to free himself from the confinement of the life of the self and by daily worship seek not to acquire God but to surrender himself...
...offer more than an occasional "Smoker," bromidic speeches, and hard-bottomed Winsor chairs. The success of the plan should result in the formation of new Territorial Clubs and the extension of their influence under the system which has been developed during the past year. We are but beginning to apprehend the potential usefulness of the Territorial Clubs, and this adoption of a home for them in the Union is a further step toward the realization of their possibilities...