Word: loathe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seniors, after being more or less exposed to the influence of the tutorial system for three years are more than loath to take up once more the assigned application of a science course. Few indeed there are who have been lax enough to let it slide until then, but those few who have done so, would, at this time in their college career, shout hosannas if they had been required to pass off the requirement when their minds were still freshly imbued with prep school parlance...
Most unfortunate of all, the apparent passage of the Critic will render any new attempt in this field increasingly difficult, since the past subscribers of that magazine would naturally be loath to risk their money on anew venture, and possible backing for another Fourth Publication could scarcely the expected to consider the precedent an suspicious omen for their hopes...
Gravy. In February 1931, Murray Witherbee Dodge was a vice president of Chase Securities Corp. and Albert Wiggin was chairman of Chase National Bank. Mr. Dodge sent a memorandum to Mr. Wiggin, said that Kuhn, Loeb & Co. might be brought in on Fox financing, added, "I am loath to do [this] unless necessary, as the splitup of the gravy would hurt my feelings." Faced last week, with this memo, Mr. Dodge at first claimed that by gravy he had meant prestige...
Certain professors, of course, would object to this radical change perhaps out of vanity, perhaps because of the innate conservatism which they would be loath to lay aside. They, however, should consider the advantages. They can certainly think of nothing more discouraging than to have an experiment go awry because of faulty apparatus. Rather apologetically they explain that at the next lecture they will try again, or they merely state that "this would not have happened, gentlemen, if . . . ." Such would not occur if the complete experiment were photographed and accompanied by explanations...
...balm with which it would poultice the public purse would in themselves be the greatest Peace publicity since Edward Bok. It is the kind of holiday which the world is aching to take and on which those potent governesses of government: the steel and arms cartels, are loath to let the world go. But because the plan smacks of idealism, and because also the adroit diplomacy of our Allied debtors would never permit a connection between their arms and their obligations, it seems destined never to get much farther than the third pages of liberal newspapers and the minds...