Word: trivialize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jones," but a musician of some distinction and the author of Butler's biography-a first-class work that was given the James Tait Black prize for the best biography of its year. He also wrote two valuable books on Sicily. Butler took issue with Darwin on no trivial point of evolutionary dogma. He was the first to note that the Abbé Lamarck had long before defined the principle of evolution, and without resorting to a theory of natural selection-the weakest element of Darwin's case...
...Apted, who yesterday afternoon vigorously denied that the doors were locked with malice aforethought. According to his statement the doors are always locked by the janitor when no class is scheduled to be held in the hall. Furthermore, he was inclined to pooh-pooh the matter as being a trivial incident...
...trivial, however, is the Colonel's statement that in distributing their cards the malefactors violated a Federal Postal Regulation, which prohibits the placing of such material in University mailboxes without its first having been postmarked and sent through the regular mail channels...
...unquestionably good policy on the part of the university. But whatever gains Harvard may make in good-will will be trivial compared with the opportunity to establish a new high standard for popular patriotic teaching in this country. The reading lists and the lectures, it is safe to assume, will have only one object: to tell the story of our country truthfully and completely, without bias for or against any group, institution, or philosophy. The result should tend to engender a wiser and more constructive patriotism. The Boston Herald
...penalty for the first offense against temperance was trivial compared with that for wearing gold braid. "If any Scholar shall be guilty of Drunkenness, he shall be fined one shilling and sixpence or he shall make a public confession or be degraded, according to the Aggravation of the Offense. And if any Scholar persist on a course of Intemperance, he shall be Rusticated or Expelled...