Word: rumorings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dispatches from the University of Minnesota rumor the appointment of Professor Pitirim Sorokin of that institution to a position as Professor of Sociology at Harvard. It was learned last night from unofficial sources that Professor Sorokin's name has been under consideration for a position in the Department of Economics here, but that no final official action is likely to be taken on the matter until the close of this month...
...excellence. He will be watched with a great deal of interest and concern by the Harvard board of strategy for several hours Saturday afternoon. Another Dixie menace is Royce Goodbread, 200-pound halfback whose springtime specialty is running the 100-yard dash in a trifle under 10 seconds flat. Rumor has him confined to crutches now but he is making the trip to Cambridge and don't be surprised if he hobbies out on to the field Saturday and discards his crutches in a moment of weakness to the dismay of a stalwart Crimson defense. Other famous cripples have made...
When stock market prices trembled from their highs and fell, rumor remembered the claws of famed Bear Jesse Livermore and how he might be running through the list, searching for weak spots to tear at. But last week Bear Livermore publicly scoffed the idea that "the little trading" he does was responsible for the break. Another ogre has been the report of a new bear in Boston who "sells the board" in lots of from 50,000 to 100,000 shares. To conservative Boston bankers the new bear is not familiar. To traders and speculators he is known as William...
...rumor, spread in last night's Boston press that Mal Stevens, Yale football coach, intended to resign his post to Adam Walsh at the end of the season, regardless of what luck the Bulldogs had, was emphatically denied last night by the Yale News...
...Stevens has no intention of resigning in favor of Walsh and any rumor to that effect is not only false but absurd...