Word: catches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even the Czechoslovak judge seemed uneasy in the presence of a prisoner who looked as if he might spring at any convenient throat. When cross examination began all eyes were fixed upon Bebe, ears strove to catch the answers which he made in thick, ungracious tones interspersed with grunts. It was all so primitive, so fascinating, that no one noticed another Albanian, one Ziga Vuciterna, who arose pantherlike among the spectators, stealthily drew two revolvers, advanced upon Prisoner Bebe with a wild and sudden yell, and opened a murderous double fire of dum-dum bullets...
...Francis, officer of the U. S. Public Health Service, caught the disease while studying its microorganism, Micrococcus melitensis. It is the second febrile disease he has contracted in the public health service. The other was rabbit fever, which hunters, butchers and furriers are apt to catch from infected rabbits (TIME, June 18 & Nov. 26). Academically, rabbit fever is termed tularemia, after Tulare County, Calif., where in 1910 it was first identified. Doctors, however, prefer to call it Francis Disease, in honor of Dr. Francis, who isolated the germ (Bacterium tularense) to his own harm, malaise and inconvenience...
Machines. Hopelessly overtaxed, the market's machinery halted Friday night, attempted to catch up over the weekend. Early in the week, the ticker had run two hours behind the market. Exchange authorities ordered the omission of volume figures on the tape. To supply the press with the figures, Western Union sent to Chicago for telegraphic printing machines, chartered six compartments of the Twentieth Century Limited to carry them swiftly and luxuriously to Manhattan. Even without volume, the ticker ran 49 minutes behind in Friday's session...
...role that no person shall enter the concert hall during the progress of a given piece of music. The fact that the time and place are such as to cast a general flavor of informality over the organ recitals in Appleton Chapel is no excuse for yesterday's catch-as-catch-can type of entry. There is always at least one usher at these musicals for the purpose of dispensing programs. His duties might well be extended to include the detaining of late comers without the door until the number being played at the time of their arrival is concluded...
...elements of that tradition are so far removed from the actualities of modern life that we are almost wholly at a loss when we attempt to pass critical judgments upon what is now going on,"--or in Bertrand Russell's opinion "we do not contemplate a flea; we catch...