Word: trivially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That a period of industrial peace has settled over the entire country is indicated by the report of only nine strikes of any consequence now in progress. Some of these are trivial at present, and none of them appear to cause more than a ripple of local importance. This includes the big railroad shop strike of last July, which is still in effect in some quarters...
...strikes in breach of contract, by stoppage for trivial causes, by restriction of output, by opposition to labor saving machinery and new mining methods...
...CRIMSON is aware, in presenting these articles, that they are not a complete answer to the riddle of Concentration. It merely hopes, by offering this practical and unofficial advice, to eliminate some of the trivial reasons that often decide a student's choice. It will no longer be necessary for the Freshman to decide on Chemistry merely because be likes to potter about in he laboratory, on Mathematics because it has no Divisionals, or on English because it seems nearest home. The articles will try to give the reader an authentic idea of the field for which he is best...
...drop his clothes on the floor and expect a manager to pick them up and put them in the locker is not good either for him or for the manager. The glaring waste of time among candidates who hung about the teams for the bare chance of performing some trivial service whereby they might ingratiate themselves with their superiors is one reason why competitors for the management of Freshman football have been warned that if they do any work whatever in the competition, except on the three days a week on which work is laid out for them, it will...
...universities cannot amicably settle a difference comparatively as trivial as the present one, then, and only then, is it time for more drastic action. Harvard and Princeton have too much in common; their horizon is too large to be obscured by one small cloud...