Word: rumor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rumor that spurious $.25 pieces are flooding New England that seems to have hand its origin in the Harvard Club of Boston, was given justification today, when officials of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston admitted to a CRIMSON reporter that such quarters are now being circulated in this district...
Contrary to rumor, however, the quarters of the victory and eagle variety, can not be identified by the absence of any date. All genuine 25-cent pieces printed since 1915 were poorly engraved so that the dates tend to rub off easily. This defect is to be remedied, it was learned, by the issuance of a new model of the coin in the near future by the United States treasury...
...been rumored that much hair is torn to fill this column. May the assurance that little to no loose hair has ever been discovered in the "News" office and the brevity of today's editorial discredit so false a rumor. --Yale News...
...which is 95% Moslem. The Maharajah achieved international fame in 1924. as the celebrated "Mr. A" who had been victimized of $750,000 by European blackmailers for consorting with an Englishwoman. Moslems now complain that he shows undue official and political favors to Hindus. By rumor, the Indian Government contemplates vesting control of Kashmir in a council of ministers, equivalent to a regency...
...that the magnet was unnecessary, that he could cure his patients by merely touching them. This pawer he called animal magnetism. Mesmer's successes infuriated the Viennese medicos. They looked for some pungent failure, found one in the case of a blind girl, Maria Theresia Paradies, who was, said rumor, Mesmer's mistress...