Word: inertia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That the earnestness of advocates of political action often gains much through the leaven of humor is a fact which is too seldom recognized by such advocates. But humorless advocacy is better, usually, than contented tragi-comical inertia and it seems to me that the CRIMSON, in its editorial "Liberal Bats," extends the bounds of the good sense it urges when it condemns the Liberal Club petition on that ground...
...making an imperious distinction on the merit of foreign courses it seems to be moving in the direction of full recognition of the equality of European study with that at Harvard. Rapid adoption of the plan for undergraduate study seems to wait only upon the overcoming of customary Cambridge inertia...
...present makeup of Harvard which would prevent the smooth working of such a system and there is no official objection to it in principle. The existing method of assigning course credits at Harvard is archaic and unjust; the suggested plan is equitable and practical, and only an excess of inertia stands in the way of its adoption...
...decade of scheming by Julie O'Donnell brought her youngest son not only the small holdings of his father, but the name and run-down estate of her sisters as well. Instead of working his property, Leo Fox-Donell spent his time tippling and wenching. More through inertia than patriotism he drifted into a secret political society and organized a raid on a police garrison. It failed when he stopped for a drink with his men before going to the ambush. He was still drinking when the police took him in. During his years in an English prison Leo lost...
...investments, and the Coolidge boom kept him thinking he was clever and well off. Rose turned their first attempt at a child into an abortion. When the crash came they went to Paris to save money. There Rose got in with people Dick disliked. She and Dick quarreled. But inertia, a wise doctor and common sense brought them together again. They went back to the U. S., settled on a little farm. Dick no longer wanted to write. Rose was going to have a baby...