Word: friction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...major Leagues (National and American) made Judge Landis Tsar of baseball-an Advisory Council was created consisting of the Presidents of the two leagues and Judge Landis was named Chairman of the Council and later Commissioner over the whole sport. Soon friction developed. The Grand Khan resented the overlordship of the Tsar. The latest of these flare-ups took place this fall. Just before the close of the National League season two members of the New York Giants were accused of offering a bribe to a member of the Philadelphia nine to "throw" a game which would have automatically given...
When Professor Koffka was asked, in reference to the recent friction between the undergraduate body and the University authorities, if German universities had the same troubles, he replied...
...member of the Baseball Advisory Committee. Mr. Reid declared that the present slump in baseball must end. The first radical step in that direction he said was the appointment of a graduate coach so that the Coach, the Captain, and the Committee will be free from friction. He emphasized the fact that the midyear examinations call for a sacrifice, and the players must make this sacrifice if the University is to have a winning team...
...nothing is more likely to lead this country into friction and into war with other powers than to allow them to think that we do not mean what we say. That is not aggression, that is not pugnacity; it is a business arrangement so that everybody may know that when we say a thing we mean...
...Workshop altogether. Said the Crimson, bitterly : "The President and the Board of Overseers, with their shameful neglect, are accountable." Said President Lowell, laconic, sad at heart: "The gift to Yale of $1,000,000 supplies an endowment that does not exist elsewhere." Said Prof. Baker: "There has not been friction." Harvard men pondered the cause behind their loss. In the past, Prof. Baker had sought, and been refused, an experimental theatre and other adjuncts of expansion. Had it really been lack of funds that underlay this refusal? Or lack of belief in dramatics as a valid department in undergraduate instruction...