Word: trivialize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vast in importance to the New Deal is the character of the new Congress elected three weeks ago. But trivial is the importance of that Congress compared to the current political importance of the U. S. Supreme Court. For what Congress can do, the Supreme Court can undo. New Dealers last week looked forward with less interest to the doings of Congress than to the answers the Supreme Court will give to a variety of critical questions at its current term...
...with Yale by means of a compromise between the two sets of rules. It is clear to every one that rules resulting from such concessions as have to be made cannot be entirely satisfactory. Though much ingenuity was shown by the delegates at Springfield, yet there remain many points, trivial as they may seem at first, which need explanations and remedying. We lose one of our best rules; for though touch-downs count something, we have not the right to try for a goal after the ball has been brought in. We are allowed, as before, to run the ball...
Furthermore, this year's editorial page in general has been as dull, humorless, and trivial as most Ph.D. theses. Did every person who could write a stimulating editorial switch to the ill-fated Journal? If the CRIMSON board is in doubt as to the cause of its existence, I refer to page eighty of the October issue of the Lampoon...
...Note--The CRIMSON acknowledges its error about the Kirkland House play and wishes to offer an apology. Since Mr. Kahn evidently foresaw the omission, however, he missed a chance to help us out of our "dull, humorless, and trivial" condition. The starting lineup of the Harvard team was run in Tuesday's CRIMSON...
...unfortunate that Harvard and Oxford are having difficulties finding a debating subject other than the two already suggested. One of these is trivial; the other, non-debatable before an American or British audience. Neither question commands great public interest. The subject: "Resolved: that this house favors a government censorship of news.", is not debatable for either Americans or Englishmen. The First Amendment to our Constitution provides: "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom . . of the press." Popular opinion in both nations is overwhelmingly in favor of the negative on the censorship resolution. It is significant that this...