Word: hearsay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Freshman at the age of 24, he's going to be missing a few years that might be spent more profitably," Reached at his office last night, the writer said his information came form "a usually god source," and reiterated the fact that his report had been just hearsay...
...member in the act of entering the building. The Book and Snake sanctum, as an example, is a plain white stone cubical structure surrounded by a massive iron fence and having no visible means of entrance. Meetings it is rumored, are held at midnight, but that's only hearsay...
...Major Eugene P. Boardman, U.S.M.C., an official interpreter at last winter's trial of Lieut. General Tomoyuki Yamashita, reported later in the Marine Corps Gazette: "[A military commission] was directed to follow rules of procedure created specifically for the trial of war criminals. . . . Acceptable as evidence was hearsay and sworn statements unsupported by witnesses. Further, the commission was both jury and judge...
...modest Victorian himself was confused on one point: just how far down did a blush extend? A Frenchman had once told him that some bashful artists' models blush clear to their toes, but that hearsay evidence was not scientific enough for the great fact collector. Darwin wrote to his friend and portraitist Thomas Woolner, begging the advice of "a cautious and careful English artist" on the subject. Thanks to him, Darwin was able to state that "with English women, blushing does not extend beneath the neck and upper part of the chest," but Woolner got little credit...
...Everywhere I heard from the native population the reiterated hope that the Americans would occupy the rest of Austria. The streets were full of homeless people, homeless because they'd rather live as refugees than as subjects of the Russians. When pressed for details, none had anything but hearsay evidence to offer in support of their fears. It made me wonder how much of their fear was justified in fact and how much was the fruit of an assiduously pursued propaganda program engineered by Goebbels. I pass the idea along as worthy of consideration because in your...