Word: loath
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another to require NLRB to give all interested parties (including unions) due notice of intention to investigate a contract. NLRB's retort (in its annual report): ". . . In most of such cases the beneficiary of the employer's illegal acts also secures a collective agreement and is naturally loath to recognize the board's duty to compel the employer to forego the fruits of his violation...
General Malin Craig, Chief of Staff of the U. S. Army, up to last week had not been consulted about the big new Rearmament plans. The law makes it his job to formulate military policy for his Commander-in-Chief. For weeks he has peeved in silence, loath to admit in public that he knows little more about the Administration's ideas for remaking the Army than ordinary newspaper readers. Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Naval Operations, is in much the same fix, with the difference that the Navy already had a big expansion program under way when...
These militarists pro tem were none other than Janizaries Tommy Corcoran, Harry Hopkins and Aubrey Williams. Their nearest approach to a professional consultant was Assistant Secretary of War Louis Arthur Johnson, who likes to ignore generals. Nor was aggressive Mr. Johnson loath to leave out Secretary of War Harry Hines Woodring, who has been making cause with the snubbed general against his nominal assistant...
Main reason why Dr. Lawrence is so loath to part with his cyclotron is that he is now engaged in the most significant problem of his career: the effect of neutron rays on cancer of human beings. The cyclotron whirls ions of heavy hydrogen (deuterons) between the poles of a huge electromagnet, then hurls them into a drumlike vacuum chamber. When they are charged with nearly eight million volts of energy, the ions are shot against a target of light metal, usually beryllium. The bullets knock out streams of neutrons, tiny particles about the same weight as protons but carrying...
...only Germany's No. 1 composer. As one of the two most eminent composers in the world today (the other is Finland's Jean Sibelius), he is Naziland's No. 1 cultural exhibit. Even though he is a bad boy the Third Reich is loath to spank...