Word: reportedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to a report from the Cambridge Fire Department, the blaze was probably caused by a lighted cigarette. Inflammable fresh paint on the walls made the flames spread almost instantaneously, once they had a good start...
...December 3 the Times wrote, FINNS REPORT SOVIET DRIVE HALTED, while the Worker replied with, SOVIET CEDES KARELIA, Six days later when Worker claimed, RED ARMY SWEEPS THROUGH SHATTERED MANNERHEIM LINE, the Times observed, FINNS REPORT FOR HURLED BACK ANEW ON KARELIAN FRONT. The Worker outdid itself, however, on December 5 when the first paragraph of its lead story referred to the ". . . . perfidious military clique, the Mannerheim-Cajander vermin . . . . . " and at the same time declared in a front-page editorial entitled, "The American Press--the Lowest Yet," that "the intelligence of the American people is being assaulted with a campaign...
...this squad, however, depends heavily upon the fulfillment of several "ifs" of of the first magnitude. If Bruce Richardson and Ted Schoenberg can get down to the 136 and 121 pound weight classes respectively for the big matches, and if Tom Lacey and Vern Miller are able to report for the mat sport, Harvard will stand a very good chance of having an undefeated year in dual meets. Both Richardson and Schoenberg will have their hands full trying to make these weights very often, but most Crimson opponents usually have some men wrestling one class below normal so the practice...
...Strangers in the Land-E. B. Ashton -Scribner ($2.50). A competent report on nervous habits of a fast set in pre-Hitler Bavaria, centring on a German-Jewish lawyer and his shaky romance with a U. S. tourist...
...This report is a lie," Mr. Stalin told the editor of Pravda ("Truth"), official Communist Party newsorgan. "But, however much the gentlemen of the Havas Agency may lie, they cannot deny that: First, it was not Germany who attacked France and England, but France and England who attacked Germany, assuming responsibility for the present...