Word: trivial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which they participate is not an end in itself, but merely a means to an end, the training for intelligent leadership in the future. Each activity fits into the general picture, just as each varied course comes together to form an A. B. degree. Thus, no matter how trivial or conducive to general ridicule a student political activity may be, it is worthwhile if it helps to form an intelligent opinion which will be valuable in the future...
Dillon: What were the punishments for trivial offenses...
...That Mr. Gill's judges insist upon examining trivial matters of administration at length, and at the same time impede the defendant's efforts to explain in detail important new penological concepts, which, because they are new, are not convincing unless fully outlined and backed by records...
...college, an honorary scholar. In Bible times, the significance of the word had passed, in its general use, into the sense of a partner, or sharer, as in "Why smitest thou thy fellow?" and "a fellow also with Jesus," but it also has the sense of a trivial or disreputable person, as in "this mad fellow," or "this is a postilent fellow." In later English literature, this last sense became quite prevalent, as in Pope's line. "Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow." But the ancient sense remains common in this country in the sense...
Long lines of men wound out of Germany and Von Kluck began his race for Paris and the channel ports. But great events swing upon the most trivial axes. A handful of slow moving men came out to meet the onrushing soldiers and the world came to hear of "little Belgium," of Louvain, and of Albert, King of the Belgians...