Word: inertia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief failure so far in the Mexican system has been in the matter of local government. The people frequently regard the local officials as unfairly chosen, which results in a nation-wide political inertia...
Neither the traditional Sabbath nor the laws of the Puritans have been able to preserve their sanctity in the twentieth century. If inertia prevents the repeal of unwanted laws there are many precedents as well as every reason for suspending their operation where rigorous enforcement causes inconvenience to many and benefit to none...
...crowded, but even Wall Street millionaires still ride on them cheerfully. Additional busses have never materialized because, with the Mayor's consent, a franchise was awarded to a worthless company. These sins of omission New York's millions of voters are ready to forgive, owing chiefly to inertia, other diversions, and the persuasive good-fellowship of Tammany Hall...
...Czech Surgeon-Playwright Frantisek Langer is the last production of the eleventh Theatre Guild season. It is a success story in the mid-European idiom. Alik is the silent, dawdling son of a millionaire. All that he subsequently becomes, his redemption from a life of complete inertia, he owes to a girl, Susi. Naturally, since Alik is Continental, Susi is not his wife. Possessing the shrewdness of the slums, she manages, when Alik's father ousts her from Alik's modernistic chambers, to take Alik away with her, to make him work. Together they found a model dairy...
...upon him by the carelessness of others. Finally, by removing insurance from the realm of law, the state will be saved those bickerings between insurance men and politicians it recently experienced. In the face of so many powerful considerations the present compulsory insurance law requires more than mere legislative inertia to justify its continuance on the statute books...