Word: trivial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suddenness; surprise many who had come to believe that a process which has been characterized by alleged buck passing and a hasty, ill-advised experiment was to find its obscure end in an effective committee cubbyhole. For these and for others who have regarded the problem as trivial the best refutation is to be found in the admirable report which accompanies the announcement...
Burly, surly-mannered fellows slouched in the corridors of a high school in Cicero, Ill. last week. They rasped commands: "Get along now! No loitering!" They insulted girls, jostled students who infringed upon even the most trivial school regulation. Complained a student: "These dumb house dicks push us around like we're convicts at Joliet...
...However trivial the matter of providing convenient communication may be to the individual, in the aggregate it presents a serious need. Providing telephones is not only a matter of profit to the telephone company, or of convenience to the loquacious. It is a wise provision for emergencies which demand immediate relief...
...many a plain citizen the speech sounded like a new and bolder Hoover. The President's campaign managers assured him that it had already made hundreds of thousands of votes for him. Even the Democrats were restrained or trivial in their criticism. James Middleton Cox, for example, conceded: "It is decidedly Hoover's best effort. It shows, marked improvement in spirit and courage. He has made the best out of a very bad case...
...every $100 of national wealth. From this one may conclude that the sum total of the War Debts is such a trifling item that it cannot possibly be responsible for all the woes with which it is charged; or one may conclude that the total sum is so trivial that our attitude is analogous to attempting to sue our friend who borrowed from us last week a nickel for a telephone call...