Word: rumoured
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Anglo-German hostilities incredible; now twenty years later the same is logically time of the present situation. Let the two countries in a foment of patriotism be awakened to a mutual distrust, and immediately their circles of honor will widen. Clouds will gather over the mountains that were molehills: rumour will be bandiod about once more in the streets: and the papers will play the overture to another stupid tragedy...
...diseased flesh, he is a wrestler who lost a bout to one or several of the loathsome skin infections that roam at large in our gymnasium. And if, presently you wear a similar mask, though you never went within a block of Hemenway, it just goes to prove that rumour is not the only thing that spreads. Some day the bugs will take that gymnasium up by the roots and walk off with it. Let us hope they walk soon...
...Three agreement which forbids Yale, Princeton, and Harvard to engage in intersectional games away from home was cited by authorities of the Princeton Athletic Association in denying the rumour that a Princeton-Missouri game would take place next fall...
...maze of rumour, detail, and guess-work surrounding the farm congress now being held at Washington, come two interesting facts. They are stated by no less a personage than Mark Sullivan in the New York Evening Post...
Even before Mr. Morley burst upon a startled world, however, the rumour had somehow got around that a college graduate could be expected to supply information on all subjects. And the hapless graduate has been trying to live up to expectations ever since. Perhaps he may have seemed a trifie too persistent in his efforts, but a consideration of the obstacles to be overcome (cf. Thomas Edison and others) should persuade us to be lenient in our judgements. The whole thing is so obviously unfair; there should be a set of rules established. Running graduates through the gauntlet is becoming...