Word: frictions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Icarus Bossi could keep it up only 13 seconds on his first flight, has managed in later attempts to reach a height of 28 ft., speed of 20 m.p.h. from a standing, level start. So slight is the superiority of the human power-plant over friction and gravity that the plane will not take off from any but smooth concrete surfaces...
...with no hard feelings between the diplomatic professionals. They have simply tried to end the insanity of the British Constitutional Democratic Monarchy having ever found itself in a quarrel with the Italian Fascist Corporative Monarchy-these two being "natural friends," with endless common interests, few valid points of friction...
...affair. In 1935 the state was startled by a scandal involving the extention division of the University. A year later a fight in the athletic department split alumni and others into two embattled factions. His opponents charge that through Frank's neglect and vacillation the sparks struck by incipient friction have too often blazed into long and bitter strife...
That afternoon the old friction between local and Federal law enforcement agencies flared up at its hottest. First anonymously, then in the person of hardboiled, up-from-the-ranks Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine, New York's police officials filled the newspapers with charges that G-Man Hoover had broken his agreement with them and, purely to make headlines and grab all the credit, had endangered the lives of bystanders and firemen by his unnecessary gunplay...
...demand that these should all be advanced. Elementary courses would not count toward the degree, and would only be taken by four-year men whose lack of school preparation demanded it. In this manner a comprehensible choice would be given to incoming Freshmen which would entail no useless friction and frantic decisions followed by summer school sessions...