Word: inertia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...them. Thus the visit of the Swedish Ballet, announced for the coming week, has had to be cancelled owing to lack of sufficient public response. We do not believe that this conclusively shows a lack of interest in the proposed visit, but is rather due to a certain lethargic inertia which kept people who would really have enjoyed seeing the company from making known that fact through the box office...
...remark brings one to the realization that a new stage in air-development has arrived. Increasing speed brings no new dangers in the way of collisions. The danger point has long since been reached. The new problem is what rate of speed the human system can stand without collapsing Inertia of the internal organs has caused unconsciousness in rounding curves at the new terrific speeds...
Percy Hammond: "Periods of inertia...
...never fail to win the game in the ninth inning, jolly-good-fellows, fond of an honest roughhouse, chivalrous to the weaker sex, lovers of God's outdoors, their simple lives are a constant succession of triumphs over scheming bullies at a rival military academy, bears, wildcats, inertia and German plotters who attempt to purloin an important dye formula from an old friend of the Rover family. From the time when an aeroplane (not driven by a Rover or there would have been no accident) crashes into a lake in the first chapter till the last (which holds promise...
...educators who discard their youthful enthusiasm and experimentation for dogma; engineers who reject commonsense in favor of half understood formulae; doctors who rely on the heroic remedies of former ages--such men may do no personal evil, but their influence in preventing progress, their reaction against change, due to inertia alone, is tremendous...