Word: inertia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cropped head. (When her old friend Mme de Clermont-Tonnerre had her hair bobbed, Gertrude Stein decided to cut her hair short too. Alice Toklas did it for her.) Very democratic, proud of being a plain American, she likes people, is always ac- cessible to strangers. She confesses to inertia and a poor memory. An omnivorous reader, she was haunted in early life by the fear that some day she would have nothing left to read; nowadays she no longer worries about it. Though she lives in France (summers she spends in her house at Bilignin) she never reads French...
Students suspect that the villian of the piece is attached to the Brattle Street Police Station, when actually the trouble is much nearer home. Aside from the expense and time wasted in court by students waiting to plead guilty, in inertia of University officials has given the local police a black eye which they do not deserve. Repeatedly it has been suggested both in these columns and by the police that the tracts of land surrounding the Business School and New Biological Institute be utilized for parking spaces...
Although it was the institution of tutors' tables just at the formative stage in House development which produced the present unsatisfactory situation, it has been continued solely through inertia. After the first disagreeable shock of novelty has worn off, tutors will find familiarity not unpleasant, and a more intimate knowledge of student thought and problems an invaluable aid in their work. The chimerae of embarrassment or boredom should not cause a device as expensive as the resident tutor to fall in its fundamental purpose...
Against the general tendency to blame the economic system for the depression, this pamphlet blames rather the inertia and obstructionism of a Senate giving way to childish outbursts of petulance, and a House of Representatives frittering away its time on picayune economies. One may find this analysis of the situation too narrow, too concentrated on the international and monetary aspects of the depression; one may disagree with the conservative capitalistic solution offered, but at least the analysis is supported by a multitude of statistics, and the solution gives the sanction of banking circles to practical measures long advocated by economists...
...Virginia worked to perfect his measure as a companion-piece to the Federal Reserve Act which he pushed through the House of Representatives 20 years ago. He had to battle a bankers' lobby dead set against further Federal restrictions. He had to overcome the Senate's colossal inertia to plow into a difficult and abstruse subject. He had to beat down a small but dogged opposition which filibustered against his bill for the better part of the three weeks it was before the Senate. He had to keep his temper and his tongue when abused by windy petti...