Word: friction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...games against Delaware State and Swarthmore, the Red and Blue players have given their supporters the right to look forward to and unexpectedly successful season. For several years, during the regimes of Bill Hollenback and Bob Folwell as mentors at Penn, there was either disappointment, or, as last year, friction and turmoil connected with the season. Penn powers-that-be, resolving to make a change for the better, have given the Red and Blue football a thorough house-cleaning, causing the exodus of several well-known stars, marked with the scar of professionalism, and the dismissal of Folwell...
From the Boston Massacre to the present, we have seen that to summon armed force before it is needed can only act as a provocation for violence. The ability to keep cool in a crisis is unhappily too rare. Where it occurs, the crisis usually passes off without further friction. In labor disputes, perhaps more than anywhere else, violence can never be justified except as the last resort, in the face of actual danger. Its untimely use is invariably disastrous. When once we realize this, our labor conflicts will be at once less bloody and less frequent...