Word: trivially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chemical Job. When the White House turned her down, Reporter Craig said: "Lack of toilet facilities is a trivial excuse. I would settle for one of those chemical jobs they sell at Sears, Roebuck. They'll be sorry. . . ." Clearly, Harry Truman would have to do something about May Craig...
...sides; Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conducting; Victor, 6 sides). First U.S. recordings of the 1945 work which the high command of Soviet music damned as "ideologically weak" and "not reflecting the true spirit of the Soviet people." U.S. listeners will find the Ninth sometimes playful, often merely trivial and tricky, and never a match for Shostakovich's Fifth. Koussevitzky, speeding the slow movement, gets through it in one record less than Kurtz, but his performance is less satisfactory...
...first prerequisite for a successful honor system is complete and constant support by the student body. A majority of Harvard undergraduates only want to get exams over with, and the process of doing this is quite immaterial. The kind of faith needed, in what to many is a trivial idea, is only possible in a smaller, more homogeneous student group. That is why many of the New England women's colleges can dispense with proctors. Of the men's colleges in which the undergraduate is put on his honor, Virginia is a closely-knit state college, while Princeton and Williams...
...state legislature which can give hours to personal byplay on trivial issues ought to be able to spend a few days earnestly deliberating a potentially critical change in the country's political structure. And organizations in this state which become rightfully indignant on relatively minor subjects before the legislature ought to think twice about the consequences of this amendment before shrugging it off as too trivial for their concerted opposition...
Three weeks ago, Ernie Bevin appealed to Stalin himself to let the wives go. It would be "very difficult," said Stalin, to reverse a decree of the Supreme Soviet. "It is clear," wrote the thoughtful Manchester Guardian, "that he [Good-willer Kuznetsov] thought it a very trivial matter. He could hardly be more mistaken. The truth is that to the great majority of Englishmen this means a much simpler test of the virtues and vices of the Soviet system than all the five-year plans and statistics which have come out of Russia...