Word: loath
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...York Bank is apparently loath to raise its rate lest it cause a similar rise of the Bank of England rate from 4% to 4½%, to prevent export of British gold to the U.S. Also the Reserve system apparently feels that too much money is now being used in Wall Street, and that as a matter of policy financial speculation can be restrained by holding the New York Bank rate lower than rates of the other Banks, and thus forcing funds from New York to other U.S. centres...
Although the student body already counts the Crimson beaten, the coaches are loath to discus the game. Brown's line is admittedly stronger than the Harvard forwards that faced Princeton Coady's recent shift, however, makes the line much stronger, and Keefer and Dixon's slashes may be stopped more effectively than was to be expected from the old Crimson barrier
...Princeton coach has been loath to apLounce a first team lineup, intending to keep all the players fighting for positions. It is doubtful if Slagle, the great Tiger back, will start the game this afternoon, but he will undoubtedly see plenty of action...
...this hour of his greatest need the student turns hopefully, imploringly to Dame Science who is never loath to promise whatever one pray ask. With culinary laboratories where he can eat on the run, with strychnine and other things not to be mentioned to stimulate exhausted brains, she thinks to wait him over the great divide. In vain the student cries that they are not enough! Could be but do without sleep for three weeks, perhaps held make the grade Dame Science empties her pockets all to no avail, for she has not yet compounded tablets or synthetic sleep...
...publishers were loath to lose such a goldmine. They cast about for a successor, and now they have blandly announced that they "felt that the lamented death of the creator of Pollyanna should not deprive the public of the eagerly awaited continuation of the story of Pollyanna and the glad game...