Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...determine the effect of rumor and find out of what extent students in the University accept the official reports of the war, an experiment was conducted within the College by Robert K. Knapp, teaching fellow in Psychology, who gave a carefully constructed "propaganda" test to a number of students...
...Rumor Experiment Here...
Although this type of coverage receives all of the news that is given to the German people, much of the information is rumor. This, he warned, must be treated with caution, for the Germans frequently plant it to sound out public opinion in the Allied countries...
...still mulling over the old argument. The incredibly complicated India problem threatened to become purely academic, a mass of mere words. Sir Stafford Cripps politely told Parliament that the Government had postponed comment on India's demands for self-government. While the British public cried for action, London rumor held that Government proposals had struck snags both in London and New Delhi...
This type of rumor arises from the same sort of frustration as happens when a man, bawled out by his boss, goes home and basis out his wife for no reason at all, Knapp explained...