Word: tritely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this restlessness is only natural; but there are some facts trite and worn from repetition perhaps but which should nevertheless be constantly remembered in connection with it. The first of these is that the world is more in need of trained than of untrained, men; and the second is, that the fact that a Freshman feels his first year wasted is no proof that the colleges are incapable of giving the needed training...
...Drool inclined to be Trite...
...drool" to call it by its Record title, is inclined to have nothing to do with the issue and in places does seem a bit trite. This is only to be expected when one considers how carefully the subject has been combed for years, only to dig out the old wheezes and ancient inane comments that cracked the face enamel of our Grandmothers...
...humanity would come into its own and that civilization would clean up this dark corner of Europe. But the selfish interests that prevailed in the Congress of Berlin, left the Turk unrestrained in his bloody work. Now, more than forty years later, the phrase "Armenian massacre" has become so trite that we hardly give it a passing thought...
...induced to do so by expectations which turned out to be unwarranted. The blame does not rest with the T. C. A. or its officers, for they, too, were apparently misled. But in trying to convince the students that they really did accomplish a great deal, by framing trite resolutions and giving geographical talks, the delegates certainly are in error. If thirty of our students had to go to Iowa to find out that China is longer than the United States is broad, then education in this state must be at a pretty...