Word: frictions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That this was no overstatement of inter-church friction there is many an example to show...
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's new "realistic" formula for assuring peace to troubled Europe, namely, negotiation of agreements between nations to remove causes of friction, last week received setbacks from two sides. Friction between Czechoslovakia and Germany over the bitter Sudeten German question rubbed that corner of Europe raw, and the French and Italian conversations, designed to produce a Franco-Italian pact such as Britain signed with Italy three weeks ago, broke down over the war in Spain...
...English department, where a large number of tutors will, at the end of the current year, either receive higher appointments or leave Harvard. As a result, many concentrators will be forced to become acquainted with a new tutor at a time when the benefits of tutorial should be reaching friction. It is expected that the sophomore year will be used breaking the ice; but when, as may be case in the English department, when a considerable number of seniors must become acquainted with three different tutors in as many years, the value of the system is well-nigh gone...
...University is to be blamed for allowing this situation to arise, it may be said by way of defense that never before has it had to cope with friction and strife between rival factions of its employees. Much of the agitation in favor of the "inside union" is coming from employees in responsible positions who erroneously believe that Harvard favors this group and hope to better themselves by backing it. The University should make it absolutely clear to all employees that such agitation cannot be sanctioned, and that where it involves an executive, constitutes an illegality. Once this is made...
Fortnight ago at the Braddock-Farr fight fists flew when Sun Sportswriter Ed Van Every repeated Dan Parker's charge to Jimmy Powers' face (TIME, Jan. 31). Last week this phase of the unseemly friction between Editor Powers and most of the rest of his colleagues closed with a letter printed in Dan Parker's column "in justice to Jimmy Powers. . . ." "Dear Mr. Parker...