Word: rumoring
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There is an unconfirmed rumor, perpetuated by countless caricatures, that more Harvard men wear glasses than do any other species of human beings. Whether or not the myopic stereotype is accurate, it is obvious that many students do wear glasses. It seems surprising, then, that the Hygiene Department has no facilities for eye care. When students catch colds, they drop in for a shot of penicillin at the Hygiene Building. When they get toothaches, they visit the clinic's complete dental facilities. But when they suffer eyestrain, they face the unhappy alternative of ruining their eyes or riding...
...behave with the hostility of ants at a picnic. The marvelous thing about Hollywood is that these people are recognized as sort of the norm, while I am the flip. These gnarled and twisted personalities see no other way to live except on a pedestal of malicious gossip and rumor to be laid on the ears of unsuspecting people who believe them...
Three months passed, and Turner said nothing more about the book. Then, in May, one of the College janitors told McMillan that he had heard the professor had been dismissed. A cook for a local white family said she had heard a similar rumor...
...Marquise de Bausset-Roquefort, a descendant of Sully who inherited the chateau in 1902, the greatest charm of Sully-sur-Loire lay in an ancient rumor that a fortune of francs in jewels and gold lay buried somewhere in its walls. In 1951 the marquise began looking for the treasure in earnest. She hired work men in droves to dig up the ancient foundations. When water from the castle moat seeped into the cellars, she brought in helmeted divers to continue the hunt. Girders gave way, walls collapsed, suction pumps worked overtime, but still the marquise searched...
...Henry Ford never liked outside stockholders in his company. He quarreled bitterly with them from 1903 until 1919, when he paid $75 million to get rid of them once and for all. But since his death in 1947 automen have often heard rumors that Ford Co. stock would be put on the market. Each time, the rumors were false. Last week the rumor was going around again, and this time Henry Ford II conceded that it was "pretty reliable." However, said Henry Ford II, "the stock which may be put up for sale is owned by the Ford Foundation...