Word: apprehended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remark . . . that I have no doubt both Mr. Benton and Mr. Calhoun apprehend that I may be a candidate for reelection, for which there is not the slightest foundation My mind has been made up from the time I accepted the Baltimore nomination, and is still so, to serve but one term and not to be a candidate for reelection...
...panes of glass have passed the great divide since the recent snowfall, collapsing before the unerring aim of student snow-heavers. Gore Hall has been the hardest-hit. Its windows have been perforated 20 times, and its gaping panes have stirred the maintenance department into frenzied attempts to apprehend the vandals responsible for the carnage...
...late. When the thief is still in sight, it is well to apprehend him first and worry latter about providing a better lock for the barn door. Your editorial, it would seem, recommends the reverse procedure. Avram Goldstein...
...complete declarations of a poet's purpose yet published. "A poem is an uncovering of truth of so fundamental and general a kind that no other name besides poetry is adequate except truth. . . . Truth is the result when reality as a whole is uncovered by those faculties which apprehend in terms of entirety, rather than in terms merely of parts. The person who writes a poem for the right reasons has felt the need of exercising such faculties, has such faculties. The person who reads a poem for the right reasons is asking the poet to help...
...roads lead to Rome, and all final examination and course grades lead the students hot on their trail to University Hall. But that ground is hallowed now, and no sleuth may legally apprehend his prey thereon...