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Word: trivial (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know one is supposed to feel pretty grim perched precariously on a raft in the middle of the Atlantic, but I didn't. I have seldom felt better. I suppose the realisation that one wasn't dead was such an inexpressible relief that anything else seemed trivial by comparison. I felt rather like one does on coming to after laughing gas; I had the giggles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 8, 1940 | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

Heywood Broun, said Monsignor Sheen, had tried psychoanalysis, had lain on a couch for hours of "questionings on trivial incidents," but "never once did he find peace." He turned to the Church, he told Monsignor Sheen, for four reasons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Biography by Sheen | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

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