Word: inertia
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...generally efficient library administration might solve its problem by a careful system of checking up on books returned, and thus entirely remove the premium it has set on laziness, dishonesty, and mental and moral inertia...
...Significance. The boredom and inertia so frequent in Author Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises (TIME, Nov. 1, 1926) never occur in A Farewell to Arms. He has gone back to the cause of that weariness-the desolating conflict of nations. In that time bravery and rapture were gloriously commonplace, scarcely aware of the exhaustion which was to follow...
Cults. Belonging to a cult is an evidence of abnormal mentality, found Smith's William Sentman Taylor. Belonging "reveals simplicity and mental inertia, the tendency to follow leaders and crowds, lack of critical faculty, especially experimental...
...energy of the weight by the process, adding 150 foot pounds to it. If you do it in ten seconds you exert a power of 15 foot pounds per second. Weight is the force by which the earth attracts a body, and is variable. Mass is a measure of inertia and does not vary. Energy is force multiplied by distance. A body would weigh less on the moon because the mass of the moon is so much less than that of the earth. A body would weigh nothing at infinity...
...chief failure so far in the Mexican system has been in the matter of local government. The people frequently regard the local officials as unfairly chosen, which results in a nation-wide political inertia...