Word: reportedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Lowell, in his Report to the University, stated: "All alumni are urged to refrain from offering an inducement to any schoolboy to enter Harvard, when the compelling motive is his athletic skill." The remark was taken with a grain of salt by loyal sons. After all, Harvard was the Rose Bowl champion, wasn...
Beamed Presidential Economic Adviser Gabriel Hauge: "No doubt about it. That's big news." The big news was a report from the Commerce Department that industry's expenditures for plant and equipment apparently stopped declining in the third quarter, will start climbing in the fourth quarter. The Department polled industry, found capital outlays are expected to be at the same annual rate in the third quarter as in the second, $30.3 billion, seasonally adjusted. Spend ing is expected to rise in the fourth quarter to $31 billion, some three to six months before forecasters had expected the turnabout...
...noise contained a high-pitched whine that made it much more objectionable to listeners than a piston-engine plane roar of a much higher decibel reading. But the Authority's own aviation-development specialist, Herbert O. Fisher, apparently disagreed. He joined with outside technicians in a report calling the suppressor a success, likely to make the 707 appreciably less objectionable to listeners than large piston planes...
...elected chairman of the board. Thereafter he repeated his old spiel about big mergers to transform Artloom into a diversified manufacturing company. As before, the stock started up. When SEC looked closely last week, at least part of the reason was apparent. Not only did Marcus hold, at last report, 50,000 of Artloom's 504,982 outstanding shares, but the Manhattan brokerage firm of Van Alstyne, Noel & Co., of which Marcus is a partner, was reported to have had registered 225,000 shares for its own account and its customers'. The buying had not only sent...
...radiomen tried. Nobody heard the signal. Next afternoon Navy code crackers at Guam broke a report from a Japanese submarine, saying it had sunk a battleship of the Idaho class in the exact position where Indianapolis should have been. Even though old battleship Idaho was near by, nobody gave it a second thought-the Japs were always making such claims. Nobody stopped to figure that with his sea-snail's eye-view, a Jap sub commander could mistake Indianapolis for Idaho...