Word: rumoring
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...Lowell's first master, said students looked skeptically on the Houses at first, as if they "were being sent back to a school where they would be tucked into bed at night." Recalling how the tradition of House dances started, Coolidge said that one day he started a rumor campaign in the dining hall, asking students...
Republicans could hardly sleep at night for worrying about the latest rumor buzzing around Washington. The rumor: that the President would go on the air just before the elections to lay down the law on U.S. mobilization. The speech, so the story went, would go far beyond the "work harder" generalities of Harry Truman's recent Korean war pep talks and spell out the specific controls and sacrifices necessary to put the U.S. on an adequate defense footing...
...rumor which circulated during the summer to the effect that the J.R.C. had been banned by the College was declared untrue by the Dean's Office three weeks ago. Dean Watson said at that time, however, that he thought the J.R.C. might have trouble raising the 20-man roster necessary for recognition...
What was the Old Mahatma up to? One rumor that swiftly went the rounds (though Rickey kept mum): he was bound for Pittsburgh, to start rebuilding that dismal, last-place disappointment. Rickey took his phone off the hook to avoid questions. A "source," speaking for him as "spokesmen" sometimes speak for U.S. Presidents, announced that, at 69, Rickey wanted to sell out "in order to get a little security in this troubled world...
...rumor went through Wall Street last week that Canada and Great Britain would soon revalue their currency upwards. Reason: the trade position of Canada and the sterling area countries has greatly improved in the last year. As a result, the Canadian dollar, selling for 90? of the U.S. dollar, would be placed on a par with it; the value of the pound would be increased to around $3 from the current $2.80. The British government denied the rumor; the Canadians were...