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Word: inertia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with his customary charm he gives other than serious artistic justification for the compressed plays-"their brevity flatters my inability to sustain a long flight, and the inertia that barely permits me to write at all. And finally when I became a teacher, here was the length that could be compassed after the lights of the House were out and the sheaf of absurd French exercises indignantly marked with red crayon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Concentrated Extract | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

...Inertia, self-interest and red tape have for years blockaded every effort to reapportion the seats in the House of Representatives, as required by the Constitution, in conformity with the present-day population of the U. S. House seats are still held on the basis of the 1910 Census. When the House met this month, it was announced that a bloc of 100 members would, if necessary, filibuster to put through some Reapportionment bill, presumably the long-shelved measure written by Chairman E. Hart Fenn (Connecticut) of the Census Committee to reapportion on the basis of the 1930 census (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fenn v. Flu | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...cease to shed April showers on the buried past and look forward to the future with keen expectation and above all with loyalty Holy Cross is noted for her ninth inning rallies, which are due, not a little, to support from the stands. We need action leave the inertia in the Physics laboratory, and show the boys that we are with them during this, the most crucial part of the season. Get behind the team and the team will never be behind Climb on the wagon and set sail for Cambridge on the morrow, not with an air of superiority...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 5/12/1928 | See Source »

...here is one feature of English education which is totally undesirable. There seems to be no greater evil than systematic cramming in the European usage, in this instance, analogous to the American custom. The effects on the college student are stultifying enough to enable one to imagine the mental inertia involved in submitting a plastic child to processes of intellectual indigestion similar to those obtained by patronizing a progressive tutoring school in this country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCHOLASTIC INDIGESTION | 3/13/1928 | See Source »

...dining hall met with a disappointing number of signers. There was no specific objection to the food in the Freshman Halls, which was of the quality promised in the new University eating-place; there was simply antipathy among Freshmen to foregoing the doubtful pleasures of a cafeteria menu, and inertia among the upperclassmen. And there the matter rests. Indifference again dictates student policy, and even the pleasant pictures of Memorial Hall days in its halcyon are impotent to arouse dissatisfaction where none exists...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TRAY BEARERS | 3/10/1928 | See Source »

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