Word: rumoring
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...series of reports circulated in the University yesterday that Miller would not be coming. Rumor had him in both Hawaii and the Barbados. The confusion was cleared up last night by Theodore Morrison '23, lecturer on English, who said that Miller would definitely arrive by plane from New York shortly before the lecture...
...came the Black Death. Malcontents spread a rumor that Dr. Scudder's anti-plague inoculations were really a lethal device of the British government to reduce India's population. Even having the body temperature taken was supposed to prove fatal. Ida Scudder sallied forth alone to give inoculations, and to haul the sick to segregation camps. Many a family hid its infectious victims, and tried to appease Mariamma, goddess of plague, by animal sacrifices...
...Flew back to Europe, then jeeped into Bastogne in time to lead the division through the last month of the Battle of the Bulge, but too late to receive the Nazi surrender ultimatum, which Acting Division Commander Tony McAuliffe answered with the word "Nuts." (Last week's Pentagon rumor: McAuliffe would fall heir to the job Taylor was vacating-Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations & Administration...
According to Conant, the scholarships discouraged applications from outside of the East. "The rumor soon spread among the schools even in distant localities that Harvard was interested only in the straight 'A' boy," Conant declared...
...Rumor has it that Harvard's looking for a new president. May a one-time short-time student propose Ralph Bunche. I know it's a forlorn hope. He is the most qualified by far of all the rumored appointees, but he'd hardly do for dinner at the Union League Club or the Harvard Club, and some alumni in Skunk Hollow. Mississippi might not like him. And, after all, that's what counts...