Word: friction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...minimize the difficulty of payment of your external debt, but we know that the only way to settle the question, which unsettled might be a continual disturbance of your financial structure and a source of friction in our cordial relations with you, is to fund the debt now, taking into consideration Italy's capacity...
Before 1914, the political condition of Greece was relatively stable, but the friction between the pro-German Constantine and the pro-Entente Venizelos was the beginning and the end of this modest stability. The King was outwardly neutral and inwardly in favor of entering the War on the side of Germany. Venizelos was wholeheartedly for intervening in the conflict on the side of the Allies. There was not room for Constantine and his Premier, so Venizelos was dismissed. For two years, cabinet succeeded cabinet with bewildering rapidity until Constantine was himself dismissed. His son Alexandros succeeded to the throne...
...second time chased from the country. He was succeeded by another son, Georgos II. The young King was moved by the best intentions, but was unable to keep his finger out of the political pie. This in itself was never a serious factor, but it entailed some friction and militated against political security at a time when calm was the one thing Greece needed. But the rise of ambitious soldiers like General Pangalos, who has been considered, even in Republican circles, as an adventurer with the Army behind him, was the chief cause of agitation. King Georgos was sent...
...monthly swing. Prof. Gifford's contention is that, since the moon has no appreciable enveloping atmosphere, a meteor whizzing into it at 40 mi. or so per second would not be retarded as it would be near earth, and burned to a "shooting star" and dust by atmospheric friction. At the moon, it flies on intact, strikes the moon with terrific impact. In a tenth of a second, the meteor is stopped, but it has penetrated two miles into the moon's stony crust. The friction of penetration heats the meteor to gaseous state, under such pressure that...
...Installed a new Federal Supervisor, John T. Caine, to do away with friction between the packers and the Eastern commission...