Word: trivialities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since the legendary exploit of Icarus man has been trying to find a means of flight, and many famous names are associated with the attempts. Now that the immediate end has been accomplished, it seems trivial for the Smithsonian Institute to quibble with one of the inventors who were chiefly responsible for the success. It is of little import whether the contributions of the Wrights were or were not minor improvements which only added the finishing touches to a mechanism almost complete. The fact remains that they gave final impetus to what is now one of the greatest of modern...
...such a course need not be trivial or superficial. Professor Mather believes that with the student's purpose definitely known and concentration excluded the curriculum could comprise an organized plan of survey course that would merit, in accordance with the European custom, a baccalaureate degree. And the high standards of such segregation would allow in the scholarship, free from extra-curricular activity, in the senior college would justify the granting of a degree of Master of Arts to its graduate. The baccalaureate given to graduates from Professor Mather's junior college, however, could not compare with the same degree given...
...Widener authorities, fortunately, have not taken the sometimes trivial criticism levelled at them in the spirit of "Go on, we're down, step all over us!" No matter how busy they have been, they have always seemed willing to take on one more burden. They have welcomed criticism, shortcomings of which have been brought to light only under the acid test of the Reading Period...
...cobwebbed sky, become for Judith Gare the symbol of a freedom she achieves when her father's avarice finally traps him into death. Spots of melodrama, blotches of theatrical emotion do less, to mar the story than to prove that sincere acting can make these defects seem trivial. Belle Bennett (whose reward for a fine performance in Stella Dallas has been a succession of mediocre roles) and Eve Southern (who wore dark hair and a fixed expression in The Gaucho) are competent to effect a more than satisfactory transposition of Martha Ostenso's bestselling, prize-winning fiction...
...Last week they were selling 20,000,000 a day. But success has been costly. Lorillard's net income in 1925 was $5,641,431. Last year it was $4,117,197. This year it will probably be less. Advertising costs, although a trivial fraction of a cent for each cigaret sold, is altogether enormous. But continued success in selling "Old Gold" will far more than pay for advertising appropriations. Meanwhile Lorillard's profits on their other brands of cigarets (Murad, Helmar, Egyptian Dieties), cigars and tobaccos show total profits as high...