Word: frictioned
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...Business men are but too well aware of the friction and waste involved in the functioning of our legal system under the urban, industrial conditions of today. Under modern methods of manufacturing and marketing and finance, there are contacts with statutes and rulings and commissions and administrative officers and courts at every turn. Legal advice is needed at every turn. But much of this legal advice has to proceed haltingly on hopes and analogies and considerations of what chances are involved and of what chances are involved and of what objections are likely to made any by whom...
...took an act of Parliament to bring courts to recognize an established instrument of commerce. Today a simple legislative act will seldom suffice. Also today the economic structure is so complex and so delicate that we cannot wait for things to work themselves out at a great cost in friction and waste...
...Herbert Samuel. The logical person to whisper about conciliatorily among the stern-faced, set-lipped combatants was, of course, the man who chairmaned the Royal Coal Commission (TIME, Oct. 19), the impartial investigator who presumably knew more than any other man in England about the friction in the coal industry which ultimately generated first the "coal strike" and the "general strike." Fortunately this man, Sir Herbert Samuel, is of such outstanding ability as to have become one of the four Jews who have held British Cabinet posts. Adroit but upright, he won fame as a conciliator while High Commissioner...
...ineluctable problem of Law, the body of popular custom opposed to Law, the rational phenomenon. It has resolved in favor of the latter conception - "Law is a practical matter" - and it seeks to root out the arbitrary, the illogical, the instinctive. It realizes that "the great source of friction is human wilfulness, and the great cause of waste is insecurity," but it believes that, within the limits of intellection, law can become an exact science, not in the shallow sense of fashioning statutes to govern all conceivable occasions, but in the deeper sense of boiling down legal history...
...have never seen so solid and united a front as that presented by the Passaic mill workers in my large experience as a promoter. There was practically no inside friction, in spite of the fact that the workers were not held together or supported by any powerful union...