Word: trivial
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This is a thoroughly characteristic example of Hunt's still life painting, and exhibits his remarkable skill in the use of pure water colors. It shows no trivial elaboration; but is a highly finished and masterly rendering of beautiful natural objects in their charming gradations of light and color...
...have taken in the interest of Harvard debating. It is naturally hard to give up traditions of rivalry, memories of victories won, and ambitious thoughts for the future of the society one supports, but when the sacrifice is made with the knowledge of a worthy cause, other considerations become trivial...
...CRIMSON of several days ago a plan was presented suggesting the organization of class debating clubs. The advantages of such clubs would be many and great and the objections offered are trivial...
...suggest that if the men will sit farther forward it will not only make it much easier to address them, but is will also infuse an air of greater cordiality into the reception accorded to the clergymen who come to us as strangers. The attention may seem trivial but we think it would be appreciated...
...been the almost universal hope and the general belief in Cambridge that the two universities would not allow a trivial matter to keep their athletic teams apart long. The good, which some believed a cession of athletics would accomplish, has been done, if it will be done at all, and it is time for a new and healthier rivalry to begin. It is to be hoped that those who have in charge the proposals for the renewal of athletics will not let any trivial technical points of pride or diplomacy keep the two universities apart...