Judging from this brief meeting, the stories most likely were true.
"That is the very thing that makes her story so likely to be true," said the Professor.
He couldn't produce the piece of paper, though, and it doesn't sound a very likely story.
"A likely story from the murderer of a station's crew!"
Coming out of it, though, the likely story is that a surprise winner had been unlikely.
There are a few aspects of that story not likely to end up in the screenplay, however.
Therefore, in a description of the physical world, one "should not look for anything more than a likely story" (29d).
Most likely the story will heed that same script this year.
I mean, it's always just a likely story every time.
"A likely story," she said, sounding more like her herself.