Word: friction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regard the civilizing of students as a vague, even faintly vulgar waste of time, are the darlings of their erudite colleagues and often of the president, who feels the responsibility of keeping the University in a good competitive position intellectually. Between the two groups occasionally there is mild academic friction. Last week at Yale there was strife...
...mission of the First Brigade, Marine Corps, in Haiti has undergone no change. Intercourse with the Haitian people becomes increasingly cordial and very little friction manifests itself...
...wrote Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams last month in preparing his department's annual report. On the day his report was published last week sufficient Haitian friction had developed to warrant the dispatch of extra U. S. forces to the trouble-stricken black republic of the West Indies...
...make war, declares Author Thompson, people are needed. The more people, the more friction. There are 1,792,000,000 people in the world. Chinese and Russians are 18% each; European Russians, 8%; U. S. citizens, 5%; Germans, 4%; Japanese and British, 3% each; French, 2%. Such a scale should provoke the thought of those who rate low. Author Thompson's study embraces the following danger spots: Japan, China, Australia, the Western Pacific, India, South Africa, Italy, Central Europe, Great Britain. They are dangerous because "it so happens that the peoples who are already feeling keenly the need...
...Kingsmere," his country home. There, as with President Hoover beside the rushing Rapidan, Mr. MacDonald found an open hearth, a crackling log fire. Canadians hoped that during the long chat which followed he gave Mr. King pointers concerning President Hoover's reaction to three present causes of friction between Dominion and U. S.: 1) The proposed U. S. agricultural tariffs infuriating to Canada's farmers; 2) Control of liquor smuggling; 3) Allotment of radio wavelengths of which Canadians are sure they have received no fair share. Speech of the Week. At the State Dinner in Canada...