Word: frictions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thoroughly up-to-date type (of football) as played by such teams as Notre Dame; or they must frankly recognize that football skill, glory, strength, and prestige is no longer centralized in Yale, Harvard, and Princeton, and set about to engage in less elaborate and time-consuming seasons." From friction-plagued Pennsylvania comes the news that the gridiron captain is to be given far more power, the coach less. "Put the game in the hands of the undergraduates," advocates the Herald-Tribune. And in the Dartmouth, after the Stanford contest, is the pertinent query: granted that the trans-continental trek...
...Philippines has been a black-starred appointment on the White House job calendar. President Hoover first selected Nicholas Roosevelt, New York Times editorial writer. Filipino Politicos went into a frenzy of protest against him, on the ground that he had written hostile things about them. Rather than cause friction Mr. Roosevelt gracefully declined the appointment, took instead the post of U. S. Minister to Hungary (TIME, Oct. 6). Other candidates were studied, discarded. Last week President Hoover turned to Texas and found his man- tall, slender, greying-haired George Charles Butte of Austin. Born in California 53 years...
...scientists will know what wavelengths to produce to have a quiet city. Said he: It is entirely possible to produce silence by two sound-waves which fit into each other much like the teeth of two saw blades. The "electric ear" will also be used to test machines for friction, loose parts. Set in the dashboard of an airplane, the device will warn the pilot of engine trouble before he can detect it with his own ears...
From that time the tension between the two men became tenser. They seldom spoke except when business demanded it. They disagreed on many a policy. This summer, when depression has caused friction between the friendliest of executives, the Gray-Byers rivalry reached its height...
...complete concrete factory so accurately and imaginatively that were it built today no vital changes would be made. The ingenuity with which he overcame early lack of materials is prodigious. While building the first commercial electric light plant he was forced to invent switches, cables, fuses, even the friction tape for splices. So sincere, so acquisitive is the admiration of Author Ford for his great & good old friend that he has transplanted to Dearborn the entire early laboratory plants of Fort Myers, Fla. and Menlo Park, N. J., the latter complete to the local boarding house, to teach "boys...