Word: loathes
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...solution of this problem is complicated by the fact that many students afflicted with troubles which psychiatry might alleviate would be loath to confide their difficulties. The deans and the proctors provide a certain amount of assistance, but in so far as psychoanalysis has become a complex art--hardly a science as yet--it is impossible for a layman to be of more than a nominal; assistance in most cases. Yale and Tufts, and several of the women's colleges have experimented with a mental hygiene department, to which those men are referred who failed badly in examinations...
...within six months." Broadway's newswise readers associated this warning not with Colyumists Coolidge, Brisbane, Guinan, Broun or a dozen others, but instinctively thought first of Gossip-Colyumist Walter Winchell (TIME, June 17, 1929). New York has heard before the rumor of threats against his life. Not loath to dramatize his position, Colyumist Winchell himself has helped circulate the impression that "some day. . . ." Characteristic is the legend that he has placed in a safe deposit box the names of those who might cheerfully see him "rubbed out," with a detailed account of their motives...
...House Plan follows the Harvard system, it is not only calculated to make Joe Yale a brighter, but a more social lad. Although many an alumnus is loath to admit it, the organization of Yale today is strikingly dissimilar to that of Old Yale. A strong basis of Yale college life has been the class. When classes were counted in scores, the spirit of comradeship and the spirit of college tradition went hand in hand. Classmates, knowing each other by name and nickname, gayly did battle against other classes, drank beer at Mory's together, crowded the Fence...
...Professor Fisher, so Professor Fisher replied "I don't know" to questions asked by the committee's counsel. Col. William Joseph ("Wild Bill'') Donovan, onetime (1924-25) U. S. Assistant Attorney-General. Finally Professor Fisher admitted that he was unprepared, had not made any particular study of Public Utilities. Loath to take a zero for the day's recitation, however, Professor Fisher offered a vast prophecy which, if valid, bears weightily on public utilities and all other forms of business...