Word: rumor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Acting last week apparently on the strength of this rumor, the Section of Exploration and Geological Studies of Mexico's Department of Industry, Commerce and Labor announced that it was preparing to dig for oil in the apse of the National Cathedral. The inference was that if any oil were found under the episcopal seat that oil would belong to the government...
...curious is Oliver Baldwin, a young man once thin and precious, now plump and still precious. A member of Oxford's most esoteric circles, he fought in the Armenian army, was imprisoned in Turkey, entered the Labor Party at home chiefly to annoy his father. He let a rumor go around for a while that he was engaged to marry Ramsay's Ishbel. For campaigning purposes he affected a fuzzy chinpiece, Byronic hair and gestures...
Last week's Big Rumor in Boston: that International Paper & Power would soon sell its newspaper holdings...
Ulen, coach of the Orange and Black mermen since 1923, today declined to either deny or affirm this rumor, now generally accepted as true in Syracuse University circles...
...Girard alumni ambled, as they usually do, placidly and gregariously about the halls of their undergraduate years. Several seemed perturbed, some even seemed alarmed last week. What disturbed them was a rumor that their college endowment-77 millions, or eight millions less than Harvard's (greatest U. S. endowment)-might fall into political hands and be spirited away...