Word: crossroad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McClintock concluded that all accidents and congestion fit in four categories of friction: 1) medial, 2) intersectional, 3) marginal, 4) internal-stream. Medial friction occurs in the middle of the road of two opposing traffic streams, causes 17% of accidents, results in head-on collisions. Intersectional friction, which produces crossroad collisions, causes 19% of all highway accidents. Marginal friction (20%) is generated by bad road shoulders, abrupt curves, faulty banking and "fixed objects" such as trees, parked vehicles or pedestrians. Internal-stream friction (44%) is the conflict of faster and slower automobiles moving in the same direction. Its typical accidents...
...long been merely a question of time before France would have to make up her mind. While the ball was being passed from Flandin to Laval to Sarraut with badly concealed clumsiness, thunder was coming from the left and fire from the right. In arriving at the crossroad, canny Frenchmen saw the issue as it really was and made a sharp left turn. If European history for the last few years can give any lessons, Gallic logic has scored a substantial victory, and one of infinite more promise than the shallow opera being played out on the Ethiopean plains...
...Senate, preserving at least a semblance of autonomy, occupied itself with trifles. While the nation hesitated at a momentous crossroad in its history, the Senate...
...That decision is based all too often on immature considerations and only years later are the true consequences realized. This article is being written in the hope that a lifting of the veil in at least one field may be of some service to those who are at this crossroad...
...SOME little atom may have taken, in some tiny crossroad of my brain, the wrong turning. Some infinitesimal dead leaf may have lodged itself, in my thought's stream, against some infinitesimal twig, and the consequences may prove incalculable...