Word: trivialities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Measles is generally considered a trivial disease. Yet 7,712 persons died in the U. S. during 1920 as a result of measles. The cause of the disease is unknown. It is particularly common and severe in schools, asylums, foundling homes. For years medical investigators have been attempting to find some method of protection, comparable to the protection now afforded for smallpox, typhoid, diphtheria. In 1916, C. Nicolle and E. Conseil of the Pasteur Institute in Tunis used the serum obtained from a patient convalescing from measles to secure protection against the disease. Last year F. von Torday collected...
Here are the apparently trivial explanations of two of the country's ablest political correspondents*: "You go into the headquarters of the Calvin Coolidge campaign, in the Willard Hotel. There sit William...
...fight to give his opponent the tremendous advantage that complete frankness about himself and his views would give. Hence, as a matter of self-preservation, all candidates deceive the voters more or less?some to a large extent and on important issues, others to a small degree and on trivial questions?but they all humbug a little...
...subscribers. Announcements are being sent to selected lists of active Americans throughout the country. Although we try to be careful in checking off names of subscribers from the lists over which we have control, this is not always possible?a different address, similarity in names and other seemingly trivial difficulties make a 100% check impossible. If you, as a subscriber, receive one of our letters soliciting a subscription, we should consider it a high compliment to TIME if you would give our announcement and subscription card to a friend who you think ought to be interested. We will gladly send...
MARY, MARY, QUITE CONTRARY? After several years of bad plays, Mrs. Fiske reestablishes herself in a trivial delight by St. John Ervine...