Word: trivial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anonymous information which enabled the researchers to select the 100 most happily wedded pairs, the 100 least happily wedded pairs. These 200 pairs and 100 divorced couples were given the Bernreuter Personality Inventory and the Strong Test of Vocational Interests, consisting in all of 545 questions, some banal, some trivial, some bizarre, but all shrewdly calculated to draw answers constituting in sum a significant mosaic of personality. The investigators then drew six portraits distinguishing the men & women of each of the three groups from the other...
...Society was ever sincere in its boasted readiness to rehabilitate a young criminal who wanted to go straight Alabama Pitts certainly seemed in line for such social rehabilitation. His offense had been relatively trivial. He had paid for it by five years in prison. He was now eager to make a fresh start. To that end therefore, he accepted the offer of a $200-per-month job with the Albany Senators, International League baseball team, of which famed Johnny Evers* is general manager. But even before Alabama Pitts left Sing Sing, President William G. Bramham of the National Association...
...more attractive than the husband, runs away with him. And it represents Tallulah Bankhead's third time at bat this season (previous plays: Dark Victory, Rain). While Something Gay affords Miss Bankhead ample opportunity to cuss and cuddle, its dialog is so low-pressure, its scheme so trivial that critics sorrowfully had to credit her with another strikeout. Actress Bankhead is evidently having as much difficulty finding a proper vehicle for her lush talents as her Congressional father and uncle are having trying to grope their legislative way out of the cotton crisis...
...both films, however, the plot is trivial, trite, and distinctly unlikely. In both the chief reason d'etre consists of "thrill scenes" such as plane crackups and mysterious murders and of the clowning provided by Beery and Joe Bags in one movie and by Miss Collier in the other...
Such a catastrophe, however, would be a purely local one confined to the solar system. Philosophizing cosmologists are not much concerned with the fate of a trivial cluster of peewee planets. When they speak of The End of the World," they mean the death of the whole Universe. The Universe is being done to death, slowly but implacably, by the Second Law of Thermodynamics: The sum total of energy in Nature is continually passing from a higher degree of organization to a lower. A speeding train, a hot coffee pot, an inflated toy balloon represent organized energy; when the train...