On this day in 1889, the Oklahoma land rush officially starts at noon as thousands of Americans race for new, unclaimed land.
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Will NIL payments to college athletes create tiers of quality like baseball has?
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Coke makes the concentrate for its U.S. sodas mostly in Atlanta and Puerto Rico, while Pepsi’s is imported from Ireland.
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Will NIL payments to college athletes create tiers of quality like baseball has?
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Coke makes the concentrate for its U.S. sodas mostly in Atlanta and Puerto Rico, while Pepsi’s is imported from Ireland.
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Trifler
The word 'trifler' is a noun meaning 'one not to be believed or taken seriously.' Its origin is from Old French trufleor (liar, cheat). Its earliest documented use: 1382
The verb 'to trifle' is to dabble or dance around the issue, and a trifler does this with more flair than substance. It is much more definitive and aggressive than 'diffident.' The word also cleverly moonlights in metallurgy. 'Trifle' is a pewter alloy of medium hardness. A trifler can refer to one who works with trifle. Either way, triflers are never quite dealing in the essence.
An example of its usage: “The poet lives, and dies, and is immortal; but the eternal trifler of all complexions never dies. The eternal trifler comes and goes, sucks blood of living men, is filled and emptied with the surfeit of each changing fashion. He gorges and disgorges, and is never fed. There is no nurture in him, and he draws no nurture from the food he feeds on. There is no heart, no soul, no blood, no living faith in him: the eternal trifler simply swallows and remains.”
Thomas Wolfe; You Can’t Go Home Again; Harper & Row; 1940.
Trifler
The word 'trifler' is a noun meaning 'one not to be believed or taken seriously.' Its origin is from Old French trufleor (liar, cheat). Its earliest documented use: 1382
The verb 'to trifle' is to dabble or dance around the issue, and a trifler does this with more flair than substance. It is much more definitive and aggressive than 'diffident.' The word also cleverly moonlights in metallurgy. 'Trifle' is a pewter alloy of medium hardness. A trifler can refer to one who works with trifle. Either way, triflers are never quite dealing in the essence.
An example of its usage: “The poet lives, and dies, and is immortal; but the eternal trifler of all complexions never dies. The eternal trifler comes and goes, sucks blood of living men, is filled and emptied with the surfeit of each changing fashion. He gorges and disgorges, and is never fed. There is no nurture in him, and he draws no nurture from the food he feeds on. There is no heart, no soul, no blood, no living faith in him: the eternal trifler simply swallows and remains.”
Thomas Wolfe; You Can’t Go Home Again; Harper & Row; 1940.
Wolfe sounds like he is describing a politician. 'There is no nurture in him.'
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