Word: trivially
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Doctors used to snip out tonsils right & left. They thought that the tonsils did no good, that large tonsils were always infected, that infected tonsils could cause all manner of serious diseases, so they were "better out." The operation was supposed to be so trivial that any physician could do it in his office. The result, for a generation or so, was "the massacre of the tonsil...
...alarming portion of young people in Cleveland (where I live) seem rude, insolent and very vague about what is right or wrong. This includes seemingly trivial things: shouting at people walking by, rude jokes about girls, exaggerated "sex-interest," exaggerated "money-consciousness," and disinterest in anything worthier than crime novels, gangster films and certain magazines . . . ADOLF A. PERLES Cleveland...
...Lanza and other stage figures is indicative of a weakness in our democracy. The human race desperately needs objects and principles to believe in and worship . . . Perhaps, if democracy could find some way to glamorize its better elements, the people wouldn't fall for so much that is trivial...
Through Channels. Into this labyrinth of procedure, personalities and policy, messages chatter night & day, seeking decisions, recommendations, remedies. They range from the crucial to the trivial...
Harvard is a superb institution. Its teaching staff is incomparable. besides, it has fabulous facilities. We all recognize these attributes. But in spite of them, I have one minor complaint. Mind you, it's only trivial, but I feel that the administration should spare a little of its valuable time to examine this trifling-complaint. It only involves the lives of the students...