Word: inertia
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...subjects, these reforms cannot be possible, but it is not so much in persons that the academic anemia has its source, as in a system which has dug itself down, a system that none but the small group of aged obstructionists would defend, but that most accept through more inertia...
...Havana, three days in the interior, with the possibility of indefinite extension. Admitting his Government's shakiness, President Grau tried to pass the blame for Cuba's woes to President Roosevelt. Groused he, "Nonrecognition in our case signals a new type of inter-vention-intervention by inertia...
...such a body, and that is that the responsibility to improve Stillman and make its facilities more adequate is centered in one particular group. It is too easy for regular staff members of the Infirmary to let things slip along in the same groove, not only from mere inertia, but because they are too close to the organization itself and interested more in running it than in picking it to pieces. The tendency, only too apparent in the past, to let antiquated equipment outrun its usefulness, is illustrative of this attitude...
...exciting warfare of principle, it is never inflamed by the ardor of a great cause. Mr. G. K. Chesterton points out that large playing blocks are devised not to startle children, but to put them at their ease; headlines modelled in their likeness do not quicken mental inertia, but play upon it in vast and obvious fashion. By all means let us have sensational journalism; sensational as the Irish journalism of Victoria's time was sensational, for by its aid we may stimulate the populace, if not to thought, at least to passion. But the tedious recital of detail...
...belated, of one of the great principles of its patron saints. Ramsay MacDonald, professional politician that he is, always shied away when Labour's concretion was mentioned; the trade union heads themselves were weakly unresolved; Bernard Shaw was unable, and Sidney Webb unwilling to accomplish it. The forces of inertia with in the party and the forces of opposition without may stay Sir Charles' hand, but in this event something quite as important would have happened; Labour would be shown up for a toothless dog, fit not for Passfields and Trevelyans, but for the Hon. MacDonald, and for him alone...