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Word: rumors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Radcliffe girls came stag. Within the staid and ivied walls of Brooks House, dancing is taboo. But there is a rumor that Harvard's social service center will continue its work of breaking down traditional Harvard-Radcliffe antipathy by sponsoring a tea dance later this fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beauty Contest at Harvard-Radcliffe Tea Off, but Upperclassmen Rate Girls | 10/7/1939 | See Source »

...looking for records, the Square is well stocked with stores which despite a surplus of Kay Kayser, manage to keep a pretty satisfying stock on hand. Well-founded rumor has it that an attempt is being made to found a real swing club at Harvard with record concerts and demonstrations by some of the country's best. And then the House Committees always slip up occasionally and get a good band for one of the House dances...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 9/30/1939 | See Source »

...First rumors reached the CRIMSON through Hick's friends and members of the Young Communist League. A New York official of the Communist Party confirmed the rumor, and later in the day it was learned from the New Masses that Hicks had broken with the publication...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hicks Leaves Communist Party; Resigns Post on "New Masses" | 9/26/1939 | See Source »

...Latest rumor in Europe's capitals was that Adolf Hitler had gone off to the front (after naming his successors) because his own astrologers had told him he would be killed in the first month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: People's Augurs | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...strategy board" of teachers to "keep war hate out of the schools," warned teachers to be wary of discussing war dispatches. Said he, with the defensive cynicism which censorship has made almost universal: "War news has no place in the classroom unless it is definitely tagged as rumor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Alarums and Excursions (cont'd) | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

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