Word: slothful
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Physiologists S. W. Britton and R. F. Kline used to sit in their laboratory at the University of Virginia and wonder why the sloth is so slothful. As good Darwinians they realized that the basic reason for the slothfulness of the sloth is that he is beautifully adapted to his environment. He hides from his enemies instead of fleeing; being a vegetarian, he does not have to chase his food. But other animals have been known to alter their innate behavior because of outside influences.* Why not the sloth...
...acetate binder, was equalled by their value as visual educators. Researchers at Coast universities helped dig up the material which Artist Covarrubias translated into symbolic figures illustrating the Pacific's peoples, economy, art forms, flora & fauna. Prettiest map: Flora & Fauna, in which gay Artist Covarrubias hung his Brazilian sloth from the bar of the Equator...
...thus, without benedictions, that the Vagabond, who, alas, spent yesterday in sloth and who will spend today in feverish retribution therefor, directs, as a modern Messiah, his followers out of the wilderness of worldly college life to the basement lecture room of Fogg Museum tomorrow at noon. There Professor Kirsop Lake, who knows Palestine as intimately as Winchell knows his Broadway, will read the Bible as it should be read and talk of it as it should be talked of, interpreting its grandeur with alternate wisdom, emotion, and humor...
...world's neglect, indifference, and sloth...
...subdue, but Love gains." His lectures on peace arouse the hatred of patriots, who threaten him. Always timid, he finds that faith has made him courageous. "Meanwhile there are love and compassion. Constantly obstructed. But, oh, let them be made indefatigable, implacable to surmount all obstacles, the inner sloth, the distaste, the intellectual scorn; and, from without, the other's aversions and suspicions...