Word: trivialize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CRIMSON admits that the Lampoon extra sent to the stadium immediately after the game last Saturday was a clever parody. But it is just such trivial breaches of common sense, not to mention tact, which make the spirit of the Harvard-Princeton game that of a prize flight.--Tuesday, November...
...automatically receive their full sovereignty; 3) during the preliminary period Filipino immigrants would be excluded from the U. S.; 4) after the seventh year U. S. tariffs would be gradually stepped up on Philippine exports. The House bill provides independence after eight years' probation. The Senate debate was trivial, shallow, time-killing, few members believing the bill would escape a Presidential veto. Farm lobbyists, eager to put Philippine sugar and vegetable oils outside the U. S. tariff wall, operated from Senator Capper's committee room just off the Senate lobby...
...physical activity in Wall Street, no matter how trivial, is sure to make runners, clerks, bondsalesmen et al. stop and gape. Large groups often gather about a man sawing a board. Last week when truckmen began to unload 60-lb. cases, neatly wrapped in matting, before the House of Morgan, the usual crowd swelled to near-riot proportions. Though the cases were plainly labeled "BLACK TEA-Product of China. Foochow, China," reports quickly spread that J. P. Morgan & Co. had received a huge shipment of gold from the Orient. Guards when questioned muttered: "We don't know nothing...
...episode is a decisive reply to people who think that the demands of college editors for freedom of the press is a trivial matter. In the East it is almost inconceivable that there should be a resort to the crude mob methods of American obscurantism. Yet in this case they are revived, and in a university environment, by a commonplace exercise of freedom of speech. It is obvious that if all such brutalities escape drastic punishment, then criticism of any sort must come to an end where they are condoned or extenuated. The man who would reinstate such transgressors certainly...
...that the incident is another proof that he is miserably unfit for the position he holds. Governor Murray is a distinguished specimen of an all too frequent type of politician. Neither stupid nor unenlightened himself, he has not hesitated to pander on several pander on several occasions to the trivial and the vicious aspects of his electorate. This is not the first example of his interference in the affairs of the University of Oklahoma beyond the proper limits. His conduct while a possible nominee of the Democratic party was that of a mountebank seeking popular applause at any price. Certainly...