Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Astrology had a boom, in British newspapers last week as fearful readers pored over their paper prophets, hoping to foresee how the war would go. Most of them had heard the rumor that Adolf Hitler himself keeps a staff of five astrologers (TIME, July 24), who told him months ago that September would bring the climax of his career. If astrology had started Europe's war, Britons reasoned, surely astrologers could predict its course...
Answers. But more than answers to military riddles were being decided last week. Obscured by the battles, drowned out by the guns, the old war of nerves, of mystery, rumor, panic, went tediously...
Last week saw the great offensive of Europe's new war. It is the war of menace and mystery, of hysteria, panic, rumor, aimed at shattering an enemy's morale as big guns shatter a fort. Last week saw the biggest battle of the war-the battle of Danzig on the Vistula, where Nazi forces had been stalemated four months by the imperturbable resistance of its Polish defenders...
...Lord Hambleden's company and its satellites in the news agents' association which, without warning, one day announced that TIME would be banned from their newsstands. Rumor had it that Lord
...should appreciate your advising me if the rumor is true that the New York World's Fair will be held over until next year...