Word: hearsay
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...addition to whitewashing Judge Wilson, you prejudge as guilty 'some other people' in the Virgin Islands. . . . You have condemned them without a hearing on hearsay, opinion and perjured evidence...
...Before this ex parte hearing opened, you assured me that all you wanted was the facts. You told me that you would not permit hearsay evidence. You promised me that the hearing would be impartial. None of these promises has so far been fulfilled...
...through them on University Hall. In biology, physics, and, most brazenly of all, in Mallinckrodt, instructors and assistants are told to be done with their undergraduate teaching as shortly as possible, so that they may get back to their "proper" job--research. This is not rumor; it is not hearsay. In all those departments men who have even the slightest interest in their students will bear witness to the accuracy of this statement. In Chemistry A, for example, the section men invited the professor to attend the first of the regular Wednesday meetings of the assistants, so that laboratory work...
...statement that Boston habitually permits the discouragement of "universality acknowledged art" is getting to be a tiresome bromide, kept popularly alive by hearsay, especially among those whose hunger for art, universally recognized or not, suddenly rises to an incredible high at the exact moment that the censors slash a play, and troubles them little at other times...
...method which would honor Eugene Sue) is prefaced by a modest ". . . If reports be true. . ." I offer in exchange on equally good or doubtful authority the report that the Theatre Guild completely rejected this play when the offer came to them, which makes us even in one round of hearsay...