Word: frictional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Three when it complains of the "intellectual inertia of the Street," a social organization which has no share in its academic program. But, the author explains, there is no one there to stimulate "an intellectual atmosphere" since it lacks the cross section of life and the "friction of minds" at Harvard and Yale...
...describes the conflict ever the dismissal last Spring of the assistant professors as "the natural result of six years of continued administrative friction and growing distrust of the policies in force...
...diplomatist, Her Majesty did not have many serious problems to be clever about in the first part of her reign. There was friction with Venezuela over the Dutch-owned islands of Curasao; the problem of protecting trade interests in Turkey and China; concern over Mexico's program, even then taking shape, of annexing foreign oil properties...
...with strange families in the countryside, the arrangement was carried out with good-natured tolerance by both families. Hut not always. In the excitement and instability of change, the visiting children broke things, fought with their young hosts, ran wild. In most homes the kitchen was the focus of friction, mothers clashing over meals and washing privileges. One distraught visitor took a knife to her hostess. Even when things ran smoothly, women longed to get back to their homes and husbands, if they were still home. The younger women were particularly homesick (some were also apprehensive lest their husbands stray...
...Along the Mediterranean's northern shore the line-up was still more confused. French naval bases at Toulon and Villefranche, guarding French communications with Africa, threatening Italian coastal cities; Italy, with her 105 submarines, Europe's biggest fleet; the Dalmatian coast of Yugoslavia, long wanted by Germany, source of friction in the Axis when it ran at its best; Greece, guaranteed by France and Great Britain, threatened from Albania; Turkey, also guaranteed, courted by Germany, allied with Greece. Beyond these northern shores the Balkans simmered, politically and militarily fluid, but likely, to go with the strongest current that swept...