Word: apprehending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mackay, is "the most subtle challenge of these three." To meet it, he formulates what he calls "some fundamental principles of a Protestant strategy." Prime requisite of Dr. Mackay's strategy is that it should not be negative-"marked by no mere blistering denunciations." Instead, Protestants "must apprehend in the light of the Gospel the nature of the Roman error," and this means "an intelligent understanding of the Christian faith . . . what the Bible is, what salvation is and what the Christian Church...
Take the case of the Quincy Street Bicycling Ordinance, for instance. Chief Randall of the University Police has decreed that his officers will apprehend and punish any cyclist who travels in a direction other than south an Quincy. The decree has been issued at the instigation of Dean Rogers who apparently has become quite nervous from the experience of driving south, as he does every morning on the way to his Quincy Street office, into squadrons of northbound cyclists...