Word: rumorings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University baseball team may make a pilgrimage to Japan next summer, according to a rumor which has been current about the University. Invitations have been received from the leading Nipponese nines for a Harvard tour of the Flowery Kingdom...
...Rumor, in the form of a recent news item, has it that Europe is at present oversupplied with unwed princesses for the all too scanty number of eligible princes. The result of this tragic state of affairs has been to over-value royal males. A difficulty indeed arises when it is noticed that the royal heiresses although greatly under-valued, refuse to be driven out of their respective countries and out of circulation in accord with Gresham's Law. Possibly the reason is that if driven out of one country, they would yet be in another and still available...
...baseball cage will be used again this winter, but officials are puzzled as to what it shall be used for when the new structure is completed. There has been some rumor of a stadium extension, but as yet that has not been verified...
These situations, which deal with national alignments, serve well to show how the methods of diplomacy continue the same. And rumor is as busy now as in 1914. It is a constant interest to watch the show and to wonder if there is any more charitable spirit abroad now than then; to decide whether the climax of these and future collaborations will be peace...
Warsaw editors, resourceful, instantly covered their booming blunder. It was not the daughter of Henry Ford, they said, but his granddaughter, Josephine, who was engaged to marry Count Skrzynski. Warsavians, remembering the flight of the Josephine Ford over the Pole (TIME, May 17), accepted this new rumor, beamed anew...