Word: rumours
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recently the rumour has spread--and from a place of no less authority than the H. A. A. office--that 150-pound football is to be done away with, discontinued, forgotten. Such an action would be a monstrosity of the first magnitude. Two years ago the 150's was started as an experiment, was looked at askance, was challenged to prove its worth. The stage of experimentation in the sense of proving its value is past, as may well be illustrated by the following two facts; first, the large number of candidates that report for the 150-pound team each...
...much to modernize both manufacturing and agriculture. They have adopted Western methods far more intensively and constructively than did Peter the Great some centuries ago. The stability of the government depends upon the stability of this industrial revolution. The Soviets have cloaked their actions behind such a maze of rumour and propaganda that it is impossible to tell the exact state of affairs. Until an accurate and authentic report of business and social conditions can be obtained no real predictions can be made. At present Stalin is the only man who knows how sound the government is, and he confesses...