Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rumor "This is it" ran through Shanghai's ever-jittery streets. But the peasants in Szechwan and Yunnan provinces, getting ready for the spring crops, were undoubtedly less excited...
...list of Professor Allport's activities during this war is formidable: he was a consultant of the Strategic Bombing Survey, on the Emergency Committee of Psychologists under the National Research Council, was co-founder of the famous Rumor Clinic...
...present at the zenith of his career, with his good reputation assured through his books and theory of functional autonomy, and with a new book, "The Psychology of Rumor," appearing in April, Professor Allport has no illusions about the limitations of his subject: "None of the really important problems in Psychology has ever been solved. Where did mind come from? Where is it going, if anywhere, after we die? How is it related to the body? What ought men to do with their minds while they have them?" Muensterberg would be glad to know that at least...
That did it. Last week London heard a disturbing rumor that generous Americans and Canadians (possibly influenced by an American jingle circa 1890)* were sending whole shiploads of peanuts. The circus managers had several anxious days. There would surely be a high howl in Britain over giving valuable food to animals when British children could use it; and there would surely be a shrill cry from U.S. zoophilists if peanuts intended for elephants were diverted...
Fortunately the rumor, like the original report, was an exaggeration. Only a few Americans, including T. F. Bridgers, a North Carolina goober grower who sent a 100-pound sack, had responded with small shipments. Meantime the elephants' trunks were responding nicely to buns and radio therapy...