Word: trivially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lest these objections should seem trivial, Admiral Plunkett, Commandant of the 3rd Naval District, was reported to have said that the play would prevent enlistments; and that, after seeing it, "no mother would allow her son to enter the army or marine life...
...always mean that some particularly horrible crime has stirred them to deeds unthinkable in calmer and more dispassionate moments? By no means. The spirit of mob violence has degenerated, if such a thing can degenerate, lower than the point at which it starts, to a stage where the most trivial incident can pierce the wall of soap-bubble thickness which divides law from anarchy in many States of the South. As H. L. Mencken declared in one of his essays, lynching takes the place of the merry-go-round, and offers a periodic relief from the tension of drab existence...
...this, one senses the thing that is responsible for the book, though not for its absurdities?the glamour and the mystery of China, that strange Empire, whose people go about the grave business of life with a ceremonial as delicate as that of a fashionable tea, and about the trivial business of death with a proud and rigorous grandeur befitting heroes. In so much, Mrs. Miln is successful...
...pressure. Under this pressure, some of the heavier oil "cracks;" that is, breaks up into lighter, more volatile gasoline. The general idea of this process was invented more than 60 years ago. The patents on it have expired. The Government charges that the only patents still extant are trivial and relate only to details of the "cracking" process. Five companies, the Standard Oil of New Jersey, the Standard Oil of Indiana, the Standard Development Co., the Texas Co., the Gasoline Products Co., are accused of controlling these minor patents, pooling them, and licensing them to other companies under contracts which...
...common-place events, a present of five hundred thousand dollars marks at the very least a red letter day on the institutional calendar; but when one has become accustomed to speaking carelessly in terms of millions, any digit with a following of less than six ciphers seems almost trivial. Of the ten million dollars originally hoped for by the sponsors of the present University drive, over eight have been subscribed. Princeton has been equally successful, and Yale has just received another gift of half a million...