Word: frictions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coloneley with which he entered the War, "Doug" MacArthur shone in the social firmament of post-War Washington. He entered the competition for the hand of vivacious Louise Cromwell, step-daughter of potent Edward T. Stotesbury, and won. General Pershing's aide lost, which did not ease the friction which still exists between the Chief of Staff and the retired General of the Armies. Known as the "Kid General" during the War, MacArthur was given command first of the Fourth Corps Area, then of the Third, a time-killing process necessary before he could reasonably be made Chief...
...hand dial to compute the effect of a variable quantity on the problem to be solved. Each dial sets two movable parts -an 8-in. stainless steel disk, mirror-smooth, and a smaller wheel with a knife edge in contact with the disk. Governed by precisely controlled friction, the speed of the small wheel is the crucial factor in solving any problem. A bevel gearing delivers that factor to the "answer table" where the factors from all the integrators are combined and the final solution appears with a maximum error...
...like the tiger-lilies that wilt away their stamen in anti-war meetings, like the parlor pussies mewing about the third international in the upper rooms of Adams House, to seek peace thusly in the modern saturnalia of all the other more valid causes of war, high tariffs, monetary friction, Father Coughlins, economic nationalism, and so on is nothing more than playing cat's cradle on a railroad crossing...
...university that disturbed Economist Mitchell. She inherited $53,000,000 from her father. Depression shaved that fortune to $30,000,000, still let Miss Duke remain undisputed No. i heiress in the U. S. Her behavior as such was appropriate. Father Duke's polish was acquired by friction along the rough road to riches. But Mother Duke was born an aristocrat, Nanaline Holt, of a First Family of Macon, Ga. Gracious, conservative, charming, she became the second wife of Tycoon Duke, and five years later Doris was born. For her upbringing, Doris' parents prescribed what they called simplicity...
Nations with African colonies adjoining Italy's are Britain and France, but friction has been chiefly with France. Because other parts of the Dictator's speech breathed bombast, most commentators dismissed it as all bombast. In Paris clear-headed old Louis Barthou saw things differently. Secret pourparlers began. II Duce told nearly half a million Italians, pack-jamming Cathedral Square in Milan' that he was up to something (TIME, Oct. 15)-"Our relations with France have very greatly improved in recent times," he cried. "We hope soon to reach an accord which will be very fruitful." When...