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...confused with weight. Mass is measured by the force required to change its motion (i.e., inertia). Weight is the pull of gravity on a given body...
...flyer. He was in every sense an artist, whose struggles and triumphs had a solitary character. As a study and an appreciation of that kind of man and that kind of service-which usually lies forgotten for a generation-this film comes notably soon. Mitchell had to fight official inertia and conventionality. He sacrificed health and, in the long run, life. He did not live to see his patient, advanced intelligence vindicated above the English Channel. Not even when his planes were winning Schneider Trophies (they won four) did England's financiers realize his full value. Not even after...
...model has been built in Florida and run to Washington under its own power. But despite the enthusiasm with which various agencies have greeted this development, Yourkevitch and Woodworth have encountered inertia. No one has yet been found with the authority to order a real trial of such life, labor-and material-saving tankers...
...offer. Plenty, however, is to Professor Laski manifestly impossible in a set of economic institutions best fitted to profit-yielding scarcity. Changing those institutions by consent instead of violence is possible when men's minds are accustomed to great transformations, but will be infinitely more difficult when post-war inertia and fatigue set in. This analysis of the conservative mind exemplifies magnificently the value of the Marxian approach when it is applied coolly rather than with emotionally supercharged hysteria...
...served in the Navy I had occasion to visit most of the yards on the East Coast, and anyone who supposes that the statement of conditions is an exaggeration has no idea at all of the restraint that must have been observed in making that masterpiece of understatement. The inertia of the yard "monkeys" is maddening...