Word: inertia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world crisis, which is no longer only economic but is now above all spiritual and moral, should not bring about a state of inertia. Advance! The greater the obstacles, the greater must be our will to overcome them. Forward...
...influence of the Communists in America, in spite of conditions favorable to their activities, is noticeably weak. While their friends in Russia are overcoming the inertia of centuries of aristocratic incompetency, they hurl insults and repeat the old catchwords which have a strong emotional glamor, but, when they stand alone, no definite meaning. When they are permitted to harangue bystanders, Communist orators quickly exhaust their supply on invectives, and only the arrival of the police can make their demonstrations interesting even to the most bitter opponents of capitalism...
...season to a reasonable number of good plays they would almost certainly be patronized more generously than at present. The decline of play-going in New York seems to have paralyzed the nerve of the producers. That is easily understood, but the situation will certainly not be remedied by inertia. It grows more and more evident that the future of the stage depends on the revival of the road and the spread of the subscription idea. If Boston, among other cities, could count on a schedule of intelligent plays, it would almost certainly respond. At least it would...
...many and beclouded issues of the preliminary arguments caused an inactivity which was prolonged with the coming of the House Plan. Annoyed by this inertia it was finally decided to apply the panacea and build the chapel. The confusion of the present opposition to the chapel is not so great that it can not still be organized into a strong phalanx and directed at the vital spot...
...Through a false notion of neutrality which had prevented practically all previous preparation, a favorable opportunity to assist the Allies was lost, the war was prolonged another year and the losses of human life were tremendously increased. . . . The War Department seemed to be suffering from a kind of inertia. . . . The War Department was face to face with the question of sending an army to Europe and found that the General Staff had never considered such a thing. No one in authority had any definite idea how many men might be needed, how they should be organized or equipped nor where...