Word: inertia
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...will doubtless be impossible to bring this organization at once into a position as strong as that of the Cosmopolitan Club of Cornell. The inertia of a new idea will operate to retard its progress, as well as the absorption of the natural leaders of such a move by other interests. But, if started, this society should not occupy the position of numerous other bodies which have monthly smokers as the only excuse for their existence. It should be so conducted that newly-arrived foreigners will feel that an active interest is felt in them by more than the College...
...Francis, defending the position taken by the government, presented the problem of Russian conditions from a point of view opposite to that of Aladyin and Tschaykovsky, who spoke in the Union about two weeks ago. He said that the Russian people had just awakened from a period of inertia, and a flush of activity is now passing over them: but it is difficult to find any moral or intellectual impulse in this activity. On the country, licentiousness and gambling were never more prevalent. The great cry of the people has been for more land, but it is a well-known...
...deposit credit very little and are the least able to bear the burden. The system is unscientific in that is fails to respond to commercial needs and renders the supply of currency dependent on the price of Government bonds. All these faults are suffered to continue through popular prejudice, inertia in the public mind and indifference or helplessness on the part of the banker...
...thrown 'into personal contact at the outset of their college life almost entirely, so far as concerns the formation of new personal ties, upon the general basis of their comparative money allowances. I believe that Harvard should take heroic measures to end the unfortunate situation by which walls of inertia are built upon untrue foundations between groups of men in the same University. The only effective cure would be to have all dormitories in Cambridge equipped and managed in such a way, that the standard of dormitory living and the rentals shall not greatly vary in any of the buildings...
PHYSICAL COLLOQUIUM. "On Electric Inertia," Professor Trowbridge: "Wireless Telegraphy," Dr. Pierce. Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Room...