Word: rumoring
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...fall,* his Republican opponents raised quite an unpleasant fuss about one aspect of his career: his 18 years as president of the University of Maryland. As most Maryland voters knew, the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools had recently completed a thorough examination of the university, and rumor had it that its confidential report was far from favorable. Last week, after keeping it under wraps for months, the university finally let the secret out. The association's haymaker: unless Byrd's successor, Wilson Elkins, straightens out his campus by April 1956, the university may no longer...
...surface with steam, and it revolutionized the industry. I think Shepherd's process may do the same for uranium." ¶ Jeeps with scintillometers roamed the back-country roads along Texas' Cap Rock, an outcrop of red sand and limestone running from Big Spring north to Amarillo. The rumor: the entire 200-mile stretch was hot. Other promising uranium areas were being opened up just across the Oklahoma line above Wichita Falls, in the Hueco Mountains near El Paso and in Brewster County and San Saba...
...read today's account of Mr. Philbrick about the famine in China one would think the flood of the Yangtze River but a rumor. The Chinese Communists have "allegedly lost crops due to a flood." This flood was mentioned in most of the local papers in August of last year as the worst in China's history for the Yangtze River. The last flood of that river, less severe than this one, drowned 140,000 persons and left 10 million homeless. The famine that followed in its wake brought death by starvation to 52 million Chinese men, women, and children...
...their boardrooms, brokers could only guess, from a few scattered "flash prices," what was happening on the floor at any given moment. By day's end volume hit 4,640,000 shares. General Motors, which only two days before had hit a new high of 107⅜ on rumors of a stock split, and then lost seven points when the rumor proved false,* dropped another 3⅝. General Electric lost two points, to 48; Du Pont was off 3⅛, to 167⅛. The Dow-Jones industrial average, which was at a new high at week's beginning...
...There is at present," he said, "a sickness in our country-a sickness of rumor and anxiety, of suspicion and distrust ... In part this sickness is due to overemphasis on caution ... In part it is an anti-intellectualism, a strange and dangerous lack of faith in scholarly competence...