Word: loth
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...College de France, Paris, students protested violently against the views of Jules Loth, lecturer on anthropology. They felt urged to hurl twelve stench bombs into his lecture room. They did so. M. Loth's lectures were suspended...
...first term at which time his colleague at University College would replace him. After a stay of a scant three months, then, Mr. Leys leaves Cambridge tomorrow to sail for England. All those who have known him as a friend and as an instructor are loth to see him go, while any who may have the chance to see him at some future date in his native habitat look forward with pleasure to the opportunity of renewing his acquaintance...
...burdock by members of their sacred caste could not be displeasing to the god, and did not need to be destroyed, to ward off evil, as did the popular writings. Furthermore, we can hardly conceive of a university func- tioning without a written language; and we know how loth the Inca people would have been to hinder in any way the workings of their beloved and revered institution of learning. Therefore it seems safe to conclude that the term "by the people" in the proclamation did not apply to the priests and their neophytes, and that the language was thus...
...longs for the life of the Quartier Latin, and annually he is forced to spend the summer months commuting from Russia to France. But the old game of war is not as amusing as formerly, the Bolsheviki refuse to go near the Mazurian Lakes, and the German people is loth to waste any more good nails on a wooden image of the Kaiser's right-hand...
...marked falling off in the decorum of its members. Particularly at the dinner hour has this been the case. Men take liberties that would not be countenanced in any other sort of a public dining hall. At the slightest provocation some jovial spirit clinks his glass, the majority, nothing loth, follows suit and a bedlam is the result. With this increase of noise there has been far too much thoughtless, although withal goodnatured, throwing of food about the hall. In this respect our reputation as a College of gentlemen has often times been questioned by visitors witnessing such proceedings...