Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...official announcement from Yale headquarters quashed the rumor that an observation train will follow the race this year. Before the war, a special railroad train used to run parallel to the river during the races, but the practice was discontinued because of the shortage of flatcars and the lack of wooden stands...
Strange Assumptions. What did it all add up to? On the face of the memo furnished to Van Zandt, the charges, strewn with rumor and hearsay, and preceded by such hedges as "It is said," stated more suspicions than solid facts. If they were to be believed, the Air Force, first line of the nation's defense, was in a sorry state: its professional officers (who decide what aircraft to buy) were guilty of either corruption or of the vastest stupidity. By Congressman Van Zandt's implications they were ready to risk the nation's security...
...University tactics presented above have taken their toll at Yale. Their ramifications have gone far beyond the three scholars immediately affected. Rumors of the methods used have circled and re-circled the Yale campus. And with each circle, they became more and more exaggerated. The first rumor to reach the CRIMSON, in fact read in part. "Reginning this year, Yale officials began the practice of checking their complete appointment lists with...
...sense out of his speeding talk, there is no little scramble for the advantageous positions at High Table. His enormous popularity among Cambridge society, his three or four-hour conversations standing in the Lowell courtyard late at night, and his refusal to make morning appearances have brought forth the rumor that he never gets up before noon. He denies this strenuously and insists that he rises at 9 a.m. every morning. He admits, however, that he is haunted by the tragedy of Descartes, who contracted a fatal "early morning virus" while in the service of the Queen of Sweden. Berlin...
...change was dictated by a rumor that strikebreakers would be brought into the plant of the Canadian Johns-Manville Co., chief employer in Asbestos. Barricades manned by club-wielding strikers were thrown up on all roads into the town. All cars were stopped and searched. Clergymen, doctors and well-known businessmen were allowed to pass and a few newsmen got through, but they were warned to take no pictures. Policemen in Asbestos huddled inside the Johns-Manville property waiting for reinforcements...