Word: trivial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clubs, the University makes it possible to contract for seven, fourteen, or twenty-one meals per week, according to individual choice. But the grotesqueness of the rates, twenty-one meals costing $8.50 while fourteen meals cost $7.25, leads one to believe that, by means of making the saving ridiculously trivial, the University hopes to discourage students from joining Clubs...
...Simply one maneuver in the steady retreat of the New Deal Administration before the silver gang," said the New York Herald Tribune. And most disinterested observers agreed that the President had jacked up the price of silver principally to forestall a silverite assault in Congress. However it was a trivial sop. U. S. producers nowadays turn out only about 26,000.000 oz. of silver a year and their bonus from the price increase will be less than...
With beds crowded into every corner, with new patients arriving even before the old ones had been properly sterilized for their return to the outside world, the work was endless. Yet no errand was too trivial for their attention, and in spite of endless difficulties due to overcrowding, they managed to make their restless patients comfortable and cheerful...
Always one for fair play, the Vagabond has been shocked lately by an abuse which rises like a viper in our midst and strikes at the very foundations of Harvard life. The commuter problem now appears trivial compared to this new and horrid situation that the Vagabond has unearthed right under our very noses, nay, in a place that one is wont to associate with all that is highest and finest in the University. We refer, gentlemen, (Stand back, sirl) to Widener Library...
...witness stand (TIME, June 11). After this false start, it took nearly two months to hear the flesh & blood evidence both sides marched to the stand-the tales of union and non-union employes, the testimony of other great steelmasters, the fervid pleas of opposing counsel. Nothing seemed too trivial for Judge Nields to listen to with painstaking care...