Word: trivial
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Historically there is only one possible victory for the Teuton, and that's against The Yellow Horde. On the other hand, this is indeed shallow praise, since the most trivial of European powers can spot the Yellow Horde both nefarious cunning and staggering odds, and still win handily. If the European power happens to be a troop of English bow-men who took a wrong turn at Vienna on the way to a Crusade, the slaughter is appalling. Studios have teetered on the rim of bankruptcy hiring enough extras to present realistically the number of Orientals slain under these circumstances...
Some of the material is valuable, some markedly trivial. Thomas Little, the collection's custodian, has great respect for its value to thesis researchers into history topics, but will wryly admit that "it may big too big for its own good." The library was meant primarily to be a personal moment to Roosevelt; there has been, however, a certain amount of friction between its useful and its sentimental sides." Little explained in a recent report on the collection, "As a separate library closely attended in its own quarters by a librarian, it gave excellent service. Now, as an element...
...caught? He is, but that hardly matters. What does matter is Novelist Aymeé's picture of provincial life. It is the prototype of a stock cliche of French humor, and has begun to yellow a bit with age. Although expertly composed and amusing in spots, it is trivial and slightly out of focus...
...items are perfect jewels, or course. A few are trivial, a few fail stylistically, at least in sports, and the poems are generally unsuccessful. But the first rate predominates--the title piece, "Farewell, My Lovely," "The Morning of the Day They Did It," "Air Raid Drill," and "Death of a Pig," for instance, are as fine as almost anything White has written...
Historically, printing had been connected closely with Harvard long before the University ever did much for itself. A British minister, Jose Glover, set off from London near the beginning of the 17th century accompanied by his wife, a press and a trivial collection of type. His dreams of editorial glory ended as he died on ship board, but Mrs. Glover set up shop with the assistance of Stephen Day, a worker who had come with her husband...