Word: frictions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost identical khaki, working "in close harmony in combat areas," concluded: "There is no question that one uniform and one fighting service with a common tradition and a common interest are the answer to our defense problems. ... A separate air force would probably only serve to add friction...
...still the ROTC system continues, intensifies, and plans for the indefinite future. The total effect is one of confusion to the individual and an overall diffusion of energy. There is a fundamental friction between the military habit of mind, and the approach to thought and action which a liberal college education aims to develop. The one is obedience and a stifling of the individual for practical expedience; the other is experiment, trial and error growth, necessarily inefficient in the short run. The student who tries to combine the two in an ever more divergent path finds himself in a continual...
...private intimations of reality, and to the problems of communication in a time which had no public alphabet, she once wrote: "One word is sufficient. But if one cannot find it?" She could not find it. But she rubbed innumerable words and insight against each other, achieved a luminous friction between lyric and narrative art. Her feminine intuition was strangely modulated by an obsession with time, and struck its profoundest resonances from the sounding board of death...
...care and should have full autonomy in all local affairs. This means that a country such as Switzerland, Holland or Hungary should be preserved intact with its present boundaries, unless the people themselves in compact geographical blocks desire a change. If some country, such as Belgium, is troubled by friction between two sections with different cultural systems, each of these, if it so desires, should be given autonomy. The decision should rest with the individual cultural groups. Autonomy . . . does not mean complete independence. The day for completely independent small political units has passed. Nevertheless, units that are far too small...
...production of synthetic jewels has reached 1,000,000 karats* a month, is going up fast. But some 10,000 U.S. workers must still be trained to cut and finish the raw jewels into the delicate, adamantine bearings which will resist wear, corrosion, friction...