Word: inertia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...single heroic event, like the flight of Lindbergh to Paris in 1927, cut through the dead inertia of the prewar months-and the hero of that exploit now stood as one of the most tragic figures of U.S. history. No great books, plays, inventions, discoveries, testified to any creative vitality surging through the nation. No poet came up with a war song thundering the modern equivalent of Julia Ward Howe's "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord," that appeared seven months after Bull Run. In music, the Man of the Year...
...European auto industry (before World War II) used thousands of tons of magnesium alloys in cars, though the U.S. industry has so far used little. Often this purpose was not so much to save dead weight as to give moving parts reduced inertia and centrifugal force, prevent vibration, fatigue...
...College authorities object to the "conscription degrees" on the 'ground that they will have a debilitating effect upon the educational standards of Harvard. They must be awakened from their inertia. Surely, with the intensity of the present crisis, they can not believe that the Harvard educational standards are going to remain at their present high level. It is in preparation for this contingency that they must plan now to grant special degrees. Although he may be facing an unpleasant future, the undergraduate will at last be facing a more certain...
...survey of over three hundred firms established by outcast business men found them employing 75% native-born workers, frequently reopening abandoned factories, and bringing to this country formerly exclusively European patents and processes. Most often when refugees do add to our unemployed, it is entirely due to American inertia or unfounded prejudice. Thus nearly three thousand medical men have come here since 1934 and more than half are already successfully resettled after passing State medical board examinations in English. The one thousand men not yet practicing are anxious to fill the more than two thousand opportunities in doctorless communities which...
While they struggle against a few men mad with dynamism, the inertia of the "lower orders," in Teta's phrase, cannot be affected. All else is flux for them except a deep thirst for salvation. For the faithful that deep thirst is sufficient proof of the existence of water--they know they can escape from hell on earth into an embezzled heaven. Franz Werfel, though, cares about mundane things. He can only flee and explain...