Word: friction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What are the sources of Protestant-Roman Catholic tension in the U.S.? Last week the Jesuit weekly America listed three areas of friction in a lead article (written for CBS's Church of the Air radio show, but denied clearance because it was judged too controversial) by Editor in Chief Thurston N. Davis. The sore points as Jesuit Davis sees them...
...coordination with the UN, must be ready to extend economic aid to these peoples. While this will not restore amity between the Arabs and Israel, amelioration of the refugees' lot and improvement of the Egyptian and other Arab nations' living conditions will somewhat remove the powerful economic goad to friction between the Arabs and Israel. Though there will be no love between the two groups, establishing a modus vivendi might eventually lead to Arab recognition of Israel, a peace treaty, and the realization that both nations must cooperate to solve interdependent economic problems of the Middle East...
...project centers around the old problem of reentry, i.e., how to keep a space vehicle (or missile) from burning up due to friction when it hits the relatively dense atmosphere of the earth at 20,000 m.p.h. To study this friction in the laboratory, Dr. Gabriel M. Giannini, a close friend of the late Atomic Physicist Enrico Fermi, is building a device called a "plasma jet." A stream of inert gas such as argon is passed through a high intensity electric discharge. The resulting heat forces a jet of highly ionized gas out a small hole at enormous speed...
While Congress dallied over the Eisenhower doctrine, the State Department last week fixed its sights on the next goal in the Middle East: a set of solutions designed to reduce the areas of Israeli-Egyptian friction. At the United Nations, U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. made a triple-decked proposal that in effect staked out a new U.S. position...
Navy experts explained that the bullets left the guns at 3,000 ft. per sec. Their speed through the air (muzzle velocity plus airplane's speed) was about 4,300 ft. per sec., but friction quickly slowed them, and gravity pulled them toward the earth. If the airplane had kept its original course, it would have passed by them, but its steepened dive made it intersect their down-curving path. When it hit them, they must have been moving so slowly that the airplane overtook them at a good fraction of its own air speed, which was about...