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Word: hearsay (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Contra this hearsay assertion, unsupported by facts, that France possesses the Paul Bunyan of banners, I advance the claim of Michigan to that distinction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 22, 1938 | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...friend named Norman Frescott, Winchell met Oursler, whose poetry Winchell had been cheerfully rejecting from the Vaudeville News. Oursler said he thought the rejections showed good editorial judgment, hired Winchell for $100 a week to be the Graphic's theatre critic and conduct a column first called "Broadway Hearsay," later "Your Broadway and Mine." The first item was some verse by "W. W." entitled A Newspaper Poet's Love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Newspaperman | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

...Student Faculty" system should spread much good will and greater understanding of Harvard among the underprivileged persons of greater Boston. There are many persons who are our next door neighbors, yet they know nothing about us, except what they read in the papers or hear through rumor. Often these hearsay impressions are unfounded, and hostile, and such impressions can only be corrected by giving a first hand knowledge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "BY THEIR WORKS . . ." | 11/2/1937 | See Source »

...charm of House life that they will share. The trouble of looking up some older acquaintance to sign one's meal slip will be well balanced by the chance to make acquaintances among the upperclasses and to know the character of each House by something more than guesswork and hearsay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOD FOR FRESHMEN IN THE HOUSES | 10/19/1937 | See Source »

This extraordinary hearsay testimony was but one tidbit enlivening a civil suit which opened in San Francisco fortnight ago and which, because for their own reasons local newspapers did not care to mention it, was just coming to Californian ears last week. What interested Californians most was the identity of the suit's chief defendant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fleishhacker Freres | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

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