Word: frictions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...word and run a testing finger along the damp surface until the amount of paint collected on the digit impedes further progress. The result is probably worse than no sign at all, in which case bitter experience with new coats would soon deaden curiosity and remove all friction between the wall...
With reference to the outcome of the friction in North Africa, Salvemini declared. "For the time being I don't think the situation will grow dangerous. I suspect that all these outcries which are being made about Tunis, the Suez Canal, and Djibouti is meant not as much to disturb the French as to please Mr. Chamberlain...
Many points of possible Franco-German friction were left hanging. Nothing whatever was said about German (or Axial) claims to French colonies (like Algeria), protectorates (like Tunis) or mandated territories (like Cameroon, formerly German). Nor was there any mention of the moribund but unrenounced treaty of mutual aid between France and Russia, always a sore point with Germany. However, three days later the Chamber of Deputies voted (315-to-241) confidence in Premier Daladier's foreign policies, of which the French-German "friendship"' declaration is a keystone. Strangely, it was from the Right, which for 15 years scorned...
...examines the old red herrings that the city suffers financial loss from Harvard, and dismisses them in a cloud of fact. It lists all the services and welfare functions the college performs for the community, many of which are not generally known. What it discovers is that "the friction between the University and the city has been caused by the fact that the two feel no common interest and are suspicious and ignorant of each other." The base of this feeling is the contrast between the mass of low-paid industrial labor in Cambridge and the wealthy and irresponsible student...
...thousand dollars is cheap enough for the publicity Harvard is getting from its gallant gesture, but public relations should be subordinate to undergraduate harmony. And there can be no doubt that too narrow a basis will cause student resentment of this appeal and a certain friction in everyday relations. On the other hand, there can be even less doubt that the Committee has tried to place its appeal on a broad plain, although in one or two details it has been short-sighted...