Word: friction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year's amplitude of meteors. Earth was making its annual passage through the orbit of the Leonids. Their orbit is a vast ellipsis swinging beyond even Jupiter, and along its path race hunks of stone, iron and other minerals. When those pieces strike the Earth's atmosphere friction makes them terrifically hot. They burn with an intense blue flame. Some burn up entirely, some plunge into Earth's earth or seas, adding their mite to Earth's size and power among the astral bodies...
Matchmaking. Chemist John Walker of Stockton-on-Tees, England, invented the first match, exactly 101 years ago. It was called a "friction light." It consisted of a wooden splint, one quarter inch in width, dipped in a mixture of sulphide of antimony, chlorate of potash, gum and starch.* The next epoch in matchmaking was brought about by the use of phosphorus. Over-inflammable, phosphorus matches caused many a fire. Factory hands, employed in their production succumbed to an incurable disease called phossy-jaw. The dangers of these matches at length were recognized in the laws of most nations, including matchmaking...
...cannot name a candidate before he knows what he is to stand for. But Mayor James J. Walker of New York City, quick and trig, said: "Our common enemy, who has just dispersed his forces at Kansas City, is waiting ?oh, how eagerly!?for the old-fashioned friction that has unfortunately characterized so many Democratic conventions in the past. . . . The G. 0. P. is depending upon us to 'spill the beans' here. Let us disappoint them. I ask for speed on this convention, not to becloud good judgment but to spell efficiency...
Dwight Whitney Morrow: Who in our relations with Mexico has brought out of confusion clarity, out of suspicion confidence, out of friction peace...
Seamen explained, to landlubbers, last week, that a captain turns over the management of his ship to the commander and when an admiral comes on board, the captain then becoming (to use a military simile) the admiral's chief of staff. Ordinarily the possibilities of friction which lurk in such an interlocked command are smoothed over by the formulae of tradition. Last week, however, the captain and commander of the Royal Oak were understood to have filed complaints with the Admiralty alleging that Rear Admiral Collars had grossly and persistently overstepped the bounds of his authority and shamefully browbeaten...