Word: rumorings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rumor has played us false, she has perhaps done us a good turn. We are too prone to take our good things for granted. We have enjoyed Professor Baker as one enjoys good health or the other bounties of nature, without ever quite realizing what life would be without him. In the future we are going to be more conscious of our good fortune, more grateful for it, and more disposed to earn it. Professor Baker has been disinterestedly devoted to the University, and after many years of untiring and creative labor has organized a method of teaching and research...
When it was first rumored that the King was graciously about to elevate Canon Barnes, his antagonists bellowed. Under the headline "Astounding Rumor," a leading Anglo-Catholic paper indignantly inquired: "Is the work of God to be threatened by a bishop from whom nothing can be expected but criticism and misunderstanding...
...been discovered to be W. A. Spurr, a Senior at Harvard. Spurr, who was taking part in a naval reserve flight on Wednesday, said yesterday that he was flying at a high rate of speed close to the ocean, and disappeared behind some land, there by starting the rumor that the plane liad disappeared in the ocean...
...rumor which certain New York papers carried yesterday to the effect that Prof. George Pierce Baker '87, head of the University's famous 47 Workshop, had decided to leave Harvard and continue his work in a New York university was emphatically denied last night by prominent University officials who spoke for Prof. Baker. The latter will himself issue a statement within the next few days to the Workshop Audience explaining his plans for the present year...
Prof. Baker stated last evening that he had not even received any kind of an offer from the New York university mentioned in yesterday's rumor and fully expected to return to Harvard next Fall to resume his work of dramatic teaching...