Word: frictional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japan and Russia move toward war with all the finality and inevitableness of a Greek tragedy. Yesterday Japan intimated unofficially that friction would be most easily reduced if the Soviet would withdraw the large forces which it has concentrated in Siberia. At the same time, in Moscow, Molotov, Russian premier, declared that the USSR was prepared for a surprise attack by Japan, and, in fact, expected it. Both these declarations by statesmen of countries supposedly at peace have almost no precedent, and show with disconcerting clearness how imminent a possibility is war in the Far East...
...Federal responsibility towards pauperized farmers is in this case deeper than expediency. The Federal government has always undertaken to provide a mechanism through which goods and services can be exchanged with a minimum of friction. Accordingly, when the mechanism breaks down, as it has assuredly broken down, it is no less the duty of the government to repair it. As long as truckloads of fresh milk and butter are being dumped into Wisconsin creeks while unemployed factory workers in the city are standing in line for a bowl of soup, the responsibility of the government to effect physical transactions between...
...research worker who is attempting to establish the amount of friction between surfaces has required special machines costing...
...into scanning history with an eager eye for striking analogies; and, as if by common consent, it has fastened upon 1914 as an instructive date from which to visualize our immediate future. In 1914 military bluster and parading idiocy were controlling the German state; Europe was tense and waiting; friction in the Balkans was apparent and unpleasantly suggestive of contagious possibilities. And with minor exceptions, those conditions are duplicated today. In such a pacifistic atmosphere, Germany's abrupt withdrawal from the League on Saturday was not calculated to calm the anxious breast or still the palpitations of the fearful heart...
...world; the Times has gone so far as actually to bewail the lack of supporting connection between the Kremlin and the Third International). Other papers, however, have asserted with surprise and some glee that conflict is approaching and apparently not unwelcome to either government. But despite the very considerable friction which has developed over the main source of trouble (the Soviet owned Chinese Eastern Railway), there seems to be little basis for forecasting a war. Aside from the fact that both countries realize the prohibitive price of that form of insanity, it is quite obvious that all the recrimination...