Word: loathful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...members of this group were loath to give any concrete statement of the conclusions which they had drawn as to Harvard's track chances after seeing the Yale and Princeton track stars in action. But the general concensus of opining seems to be that Harvard has an outside chance of beating Yale on the following Saturday...
...seat occupied by David Ignatius Walsh, pugnacious Democrat. NO man could battle David Walsh with one hand, and guide the fortunes of the Republican National Campaign with the other-hoping to do both successfully. C. Bascom Slemp has been suggested as an alternative. But the President may be loath to part with his able Secretary...
...birth control in that city (who include Health Commissioner Herman N. Bundesen, M. D.), when he granted a mandamus petition to compel the city to issue a license for the proposed birth control clinic, theme of great agitation. Judge Fisher's decision contained these words: " I am loath to subscribe to the proposition that knowledge of birth preventive methods would materially lessen morality. If true, it would be sad to contemplate the weakness of our moral sense." The city will appeal. It contends that there are no non-injurious preventive methods. Some physicians testified to the contrary. The clinic...