Word: friction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quoted last week, and which constitute what may be called the Eight-Power Agreement. The adoption of these principles, was, however, only a beginning. The delegates in committee at once set to work to apply those principles to the specific conditions in China which are the cause of international friction. These conditions they have agreed to consider in the order in which they are named in the agenda. First in order are the conditions affecting China's territorial and administrative integrity. Most of these conditions are of long standing. How involved they are no one who has read even...
...weeks, however, his relations with the university authorities have been satisfactory in every way. He produced in other years winning crews that proved his ability as a coach. We hope he will return to England taking the memory of those Yale years with him rather than the feeling of friction which has followed the disastrous races of the spring of 1921. Yale News...
...rest of the world. That is what we should naturally expect, and it is quite an unjustifiable optimism on our part to believe that it is every going to be otherwise. We can only hope that the world might some day realize that it is essentially the natural friction of human relationships that is commonly misnamed the Jewish problem. There is one kind of Jewish problem, however, that is real, and that is the problem of the Jew to himself...
...armies, one for war-the organized reserves--and one for peace--the regular establishment, under different heads, coordinated only in the Secretary of War, who is not a military man. Not even the fact that General Harbord is a member of the so called "Pershing clique" can prevent friction from arising between the two, which would be highly prejudicial to the best interests of the nation...
...prediction is a long step. Moreover the significance of the action means much less when we remember that this is the League's first meeting. That everything should go smoothly among so many peoples of the wide world, that the machinery of the League should move without the slightest friction at its first trial was not to be expected. It was a wise step that Commission One took in deciding against discussion of amendments in this session; the League is young and inexperienced, and intelligent amendments can be added only when its weaknesses are apparent. Argentina's proceeding...