Word: frictional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have its own ideas about what its money should be used for; and more often, about the terms under which its money should be used. Some Federal aid money requires the applicant to file an affidavit disclaiming membership, and even belief, in any subversive organizations. A second source of friction is indirect costs. A formula devised by the budget bureau suggests that the overhead expense to the University involved in administering every hundred dollars of Federal aid can rise as high as $28.50. But Harvard is allowed to add onto most research contracts only a 15 per cent allowance...
...steering mechanism is a fast-spinning wheel called a gyroscope. These little wheels do their jobs because they try to point steadily in a fixed direction, and so they sense any turning motion of the vehicle that carries them. But conventional gyroscopes present a continuing problem. Because of friction in the bearings of their spinning wheels, they tend to drift slowly away from the proper direction, and so give false readings. This annoying weakness may soon be corrected. Scientists at Republic Aviation Corp. are hard at work for the U.S. Navy developing a gyro with no wheels, no bearings...
Another cause of minor friction was the happy Italian custom of shooting birds out of the sky with the nearest available firearm. Horrified German matrons pleaded for peace in the name of European unity, and most Italians reluctantly agreed. German mothers, who call the Italians "macaronis," would be happy to see the Roman romantics go. Not so their fun-loving daughters, who are even willing to pay for the drinks of their newfound cha-cha-cha partners. "It's worth it," said one Teutonic lovely: "You don't find Germans who can catch that rhythm...
...deny Massachusetts the opportunity for selection would be unfair to the citizens of the State," Kennedy asserted. He claimed that "there is mutual admiration, closeness, and friendship" between the Speaker and the President and said that "the friction of the campaign will not hurt that relationship...
Then a new president, James , succeeded Lowell and his dean. The relation between and president was back where been 25 years before; one was stuck with another's there was personal friction to The influence of the dean...