Word: friction
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Such a form of government is unnecessary. A. Our present system is satisfactory. (1) It possesses all the lack of friction that is consistent with careful legislation. (2) It secures as much harmony between the departments as is consistent with their independence. (3) It represents the people in the best way. (a) Under it the majority can not oppress the minority. (x) The power of the majority is restrained by checks. (4) It trains many men in the functions of government. (a) Every member of Congress is represented on some committee. (b) These committees prepare the bills. (5) It gives...
...this precarious and dilatory state of affairs flows the need of a permanent system, which has the advantages of having the machinery ready and getting a large number of cases referred to arbitration earlier. This means not only a lessening of the irritation and friction between the two counties, but also a saving of the material loss now produced by the mere apprehension of hostilities...
...revenues could come from this tax for ten months, and the amount even then would be uncertain. A better source of aid was open - the internal revenue taxes. Here was a source of revenue, three times that estimated for this law. easily and economically collected, without popular friction or disturbance to trade. Why did Congress neglect it? Because popular clamor dinned its claims in one ear, while Congress turned the other to the gentle suggestions of the beer combine. The law is unjustifiable because of its radical defects. The special deductions allowed open wide the doors of evasion, and this...
...tickets for the Harvard game were distributed here this afternoon without friction. The system used was by application blanks, and a throng of over a thousand filed through the Yale Cooperative store to obtain their seats. The remaining tickets, about a hundred, will go on sale tomorrow. The best seats are all gone, but positions at the end of the field are left. A big premium is being offered for good seats, but very few have fallen into the hands of speculators. Yale men have gone to Springfield and other places where tickets were sent, to procure additions to their...
...does not imply the greatest actual ability as a baseball player any more than generalship in an army implies the best shot with a rifle or the greatest ability in sword practice. The man who can get the most work out of the nine with the least possible friction is the man whom we need. The nine this spring will not be an "aggregation of stars" as our teams have been called, and we cannot rely on brilliant individual work to bring us victory. This year if ever, the individual players must quit their individual aims and unify their efforts...