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Word: trivially (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Manhattan gallerygoers had evidence that old man Picabia had a new, if rather trivial, trick. Abandoning his garish pictures of expensive French real estate, he was painting wobbly-ringed dots on thick monochrome backgrounds. With three to 15 dots to a canvas, the pictures had all the monotony and none of the scientific interest of a series of astronomical photographs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Old Trickster | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

...grounds of "moral turpitude" growing out of some old charges of corruption while he was governor of North Dakota. He has since made several Senators regret their votes to seat him. A lone wolf, incapable of cooperation, 63-year-old Isolationist Langer has probably introduced more trivial bills than any other Senator, once proposed that the U.S. withhold the $3,750,000,000 loan from Britain and use the money to provide urinalysis for U.S. citizens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE SENATE'S MOST EXPENDABLE | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

...Beyond the boundaries of one's living working knowledge," Conant insisted, "factual information is trivial and ephemeral, (although) it may be useful as a guide to communication with contemporaries on s superficial basis...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin, | Title: Serious Scholarship Crisis Depicted in Conant Report | 1/24/1950 | See Source »

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