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This device, designed to "determine the coefficient of friction which is an index of relative slipperiness," was delivered to the General Services Administration, Department of Buildings Management survey team. The team surveyed. After weeks came a report. Freely translated from the Pentagonese, it said: the floors aren't too slippery at all; people around here are just too careless...
...know, the J.C.S. have never changed those recommendations. If they have, I have never been informed of it. I want to say that the relationships between the J.C.S. and myself have been admirable. All members are personal friends of mine. If there has been any friction between us, I am not aware...
Editor Hodding Carter of the Greenville (Miss.) Delta Democrat-Times has helped make Greenville a notable example of tolerance in the race-and religion-conscious South. Although Negroes outnumber whites nearly two to one in the Greenville area, there is little friction between the two races. Carter, a determined but unfanatical liberal who believes the South can best solve its own problems, has not attacked segregation. He has concentrated on building up respect between races and between religions. At 44-year-old Editor Carter's urging, Greenville Protestants and Catholics helped build a new synagogue for the Jews. Then...
A.F.L. has called a mass meeting of service and maintenance workers at 8 p.m. in the Hotel Commander. The meeting, it said last night, was "at the request of scores of University employees, tired of the growing friction and disunity within their own ranks...
Percentage & Average. Any roulette wheel can develop a slight imbalance, or an imperceptible rough spot which makes the friction uneven as it turns. This will favor certain numbers, and a player who discovers it may profit briefly. But a properly run casino checks the wheels constantly and changes them from table to table just to guard against such innocent larceny. The astonishing thing in Señor Delgado's case was that despite all normal precautions he kept on winning, in seeming defiance of the laws of percentage and average...