Word: frictions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wisely concluded to get out of what has come to be looked upon as shady business. Whether it has been altogether wise to place the management of the concessions in the hands of the College Employment Office is another matter. Already there has been friction between the two organizations of a sort which augurs ill for the success of the project. After all, employment is one thing and business management quite another and it is unreasonable to suppose that the two activities may be happily combined. The obvious method of securing an equitable distribution of jobs between athletes...
...Mechanical Power and Friction" Professor Black, Jef, Phys...
...richest of U. S. tycoons, Friction-Fighter Timken, 61, has been called "The Millionaire Nobody Knows." Living in Canton, Ohio, where his plant is located, he finds recreation in horses, fishing, speed boats, aviation. Indoors, he is serious at bridge. Autocratic in his philosophy of business, he feels one man must be unalterably in control. Yet he believes with Henry Ford that good work can come only from good wages, has never had a strike...
...Literally named, the spitball has saliva applied on one side. The difference in atmospheric friction on the wet and dry sides gives the ball a queer twist or "break...
...blanket, the Heaviside layer, very little is known, and that only inferentially. Pressure 100 miles up is calculated to be 1/300,000 of the pressure at sea level, practically a vacuum. Highly tenuous though that upper medium is, it is nonetheless dense enough to burn up meteors by its friction. Like the lower atmosphere it carries electrical charges. Proof of that is the great heights from which the curtains of Aurora Borealis, an electrical phenomenon, hang. If Professor Goddard, or anyone else, can learn the exact nature of that high zone it is conceivable that man will be able...