Word: trivial
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Reports are beginning to reach this country of ill-feeling and disturbances between French and American soldiers and between British and Americans. Certain newspapers--not necessarily intentionally--distort the actual facts, magnify trivial incidents and in general do a great deal to spread the seeds of discord that the Boche have taken such pains to sow. Headlines such as the following may be seen almost daily in the news-papers: "British Even More Bitter Against Americans Than French"; "Charm of La Belle France a Myth"; "French Glad to See Last of Americans"; "Dislike on All Sides in England"; "Doughboys Receive...
...been shown in previous years that the completeness of the secretary's first report depends very largely upon his receiving the "class lives" before the spring recess. To many men the questions asked may seem trivial...
...accustomed to the publicity our newspapers give to the private life of men in high positions and we pay very little attention to it. In the case of Mr. Wilson, however and his foreign mission the practice has been carried to an extreme. The most trivial incidents of his daily life, the most matter of fact circumstances connected with his reception have been advertised with brazen complacency. When the British offered him the only formal entertainment that could be extended to the head of a great nation, the papers made much of the royal treatment this "prince of democracy...
...only is much time being lost regularly on the unnecessarily strict observance of routine, but the officers in some cases regard this as the "open season" for all week-end leaves of absence. Trivial infractions are punished by confinement to barracks and a number of hours of fatigue duty at the week-end. Such a policy plays havoc with the victim's time for study. For, he is not only denied the use of the library, and freedom of action for similar purposes, but brass and window polishing is substituted, per force, for necessary preparation of courses. The result...
With firm confidence in the ultimate mercy of that Providence which regulates all things transient and trivial in the minds of men, I enter the lists of the educational combat as an humble suppliant, who only desires to know why these things...