Word: loth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talked for an hour to Dr. Albert Einstein, whom he had never met before. Said Shadowitz: "I discussed this matter personally with Dr. Einstein in Princeton, and he advised me not to cooperate with this or any otl.er committee of the same nature." Replied McCarthy, by no means loth to have Einstein's name help his own into print: "I would suggest if you don't want to spend considerable time in jail that you advise with your lawyer rather than Dr. Einstein...
...other entries. Two Navy pilots nose into a swamp on take-off and are killed. Chamberlin damages his Bellanca in a routine test flight. Commander Richard E. Byrd, with his Fokker and four-man crew all set, waits at Roosevelt Field for the word from the weatherman. On May loth, two days after Frenchmen Nungesser and Coli take off from Paris, Lindbergh hops from San Diego to St. Louis in the record time of 14 hrs. 25 min., takes off next morning, and by afternoon is in New York...
...Kinsey ... has done for sex what Columbus did for geography," declared a a pair of enthusiasts (Lawyer Morris Ernst and Biographer David Loth) forgetting that Columbus did not know where he was when he got there. Perhaps inspired by the accolade, Kinsey opens his second volume with the words : "There is no ocean of greater magnitude than the sexual function." Kinsey a dedicated explorer, has sailed a long way over that vast and deep ocean, but he has only fled the surface currents. His interviews are echo-soundings. Kinsey's work contains much that is valuable, but it must...
Last week, for the first time, the Nelson gallery proudly showed off the results of Restorer Roth's patient work. By removing the 12th century mural (which he carefully reassembled on a new panel), Roth had uncovered a magnificent loth century Tang painting of Kuan-yin, the Goddess of Mercy, done in brilliant vermilion, orange, green and blue. Some 800 years ago, temple priests in North China had evidently tired of the goddess on their wall, ordered her plastered over with a layer of mud and rice husks, then commissioned artists to paint another scene on top. Experts could...
Explaining why he had been loth to give names, Adlai Stevenson pointed out that Illinois law does not require any public accounting of political contributions, so those who gave did so in the belief that "their privacy" would be respected. Nearly all states now require some accounting of campaign funds, but Governor Stevenson has never proposed such a law for Illinois...