Word: trivalent
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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and so their house and street life was trival and commonplace. Ralph Waldo Emerson...
...although membership in the organization itself shows a fairly even distribution of ages. There is good reason for this. The younger people came faithfully, when the group was first established but soon grew bored, finding that the meetings rambled on for hours at a time with promises, protests, and trival discussions replacing concrete ideas for action...
Students opposed the ban, saying the college should not exercise "its powers in matters which are natural and trival." Officials defended the rule as "strictly a safety measure against accidents...
...feet of great scholars is one of the privileges of which the college man should be most jealous, following him who can lead revealingly into the mysteries of history and literature, of science, and to forego such opportunities because one is absorbed in some trival extraneous activity is simply to sell one's birthright for a mess of pottage. Folly is too mild a term for such ineptitude." President Augell of Yale...
...teams she will play next fall. Furthermore the Dartmouth Athletic Council, afire with zeal to reform the game, has sent out letters to Brown, Cornell and Harvard Universities, major opponents on next fall's schedule, proposing similar measures. A great deal of fuss has been made over this trival change and we are inclined to agree with the World that when such elaborate means are taken to abolish so trivial a thing as scouting, one cannot help thinking of the shell-shocked veteran who was being examined at an army hospital...