Word: slothfulness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...amuse himself and guests often Speaker Longworth plays the violin, plays it well. But he would not fiddle at a fire. House Joint Resolution No. 133 gave the Speaker a splendid chance to contrast with the Senate's sloth his own House's prized efficiency. H. J. Res. 133 was the measure providing the 1% income tax reduction called for by President Hoover (TIME, Dec. 9). The Ways & Means Committee had given it a favorable report in 30 minutes. For its discussion on the floor the Speaker allowed the House just three hours. To the debate...
...first place, Mr. Loree or any other reputable railroader is entirely in order when he devises a plan for railroad consolidation. Nothing in the fast-moving U. S. has so dawdled and daggled as rail road consolidation -except possibly Prohibition enforcement. The I. C. C. has moved with the sloth of an iceberg. It now promises to come out soon with the basis of a plan. For years the public has been bored with dozens of plans mostly quite unoriginal...
Preserved Sloth. Perhaps 1,000,000 years ago, certainly 500,000, a dumpy, pale yellow ground sloth, 8 feet long from its small head to its thick tail, lumbered terrorized near what is now El Paso, Texas. Some predatory beast was chasing it, perhaps a sabre-toothed tiger. The sloth was a plant-eating animal with soft teeth and did not know how to fight. So it could only lope towards a hole it knew. It reached the hole, scrambled over the ledge, fell 100 feet to the bottom. Bats who mat> the place their perch fluttered and squeaked fearfully...
...disfranchising Negroes. Certificates from Democratic primaries in the South are virtually the same as election certificates, so ubiquitously preponderant is the party. Where any rising tide of black Republican votes may occur, white concern for the all-white ticket is calculated to insure the Democrats against the dangers of sloth, carelessness, disaffection among themselves. The new Texas method of disfranchising Negroes by simple race discrimination in the party membership supersedes early, cruder. methods. Texas used to bar Negroes from the polls by a State law. But Negroes had this law declared unconstitutional. Other methods have been...
Similarly, excavators at Venice, Fla., turned up a mammoth's skeleton, nearly intact. Near Alva, Okla., Dr. James W. Gidley of the Smithsonian Institution dug up another mammoth; also parts of a giant sloth. Near Sarasota, Fla., Dr. Gidley found a deep bed rich with bones for future investigation...