Word: apprehending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have not committed any crimes and I have never done anything with intent to injure the United States. It is also an unfortunate fact, however, that under present circumstances a person who is subjected to interrogation of this kind has cause, no matter how innocent he may be, to apprehend that accusations have been or will be constructed against...
According to the Council's recommendation, if the idea is adopted, any policeman, fireman, or group of officers who apprehend or "cause to be apprehended" any adult false alarm sounders will receive the extra vacation with...
...Maurice Cramer, chairman of the humanities department. Cramer was quoted by the Chicago Maroon as saying "it would not be easily possible for the humanities courses to be in any closer touch with the real and concrete since the theoretical in these courses exists as a means to apprehend the real and concrete. In any case, there is more of the real and concrete in the humanities than there is of the theoretical...
...other, a public information short, narrates the work of railroad detectives, or "cinder dicks" in the railroad vernacular. These "cinder dicks" guard cars filled with $75,000 worth of cigarettes, keep hoboes out of cars, and apprehend pickpockets in terminals...
...honor to be among the group that steals the bell, competition is hard between various bunches of freshmen to see who can carry off the prize first. The University doesn't mind the theft once a year, although the proctors and campus cops keep a sharp eye out and apprehend anyone they can who acts even faintly suspicious near the tower. To elude the watchful constabulary and get the clapper is every Tiger cub's dream...