Word: ripe
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Whether, however,--quoting Newman--"the time is now surely ripe for someone to take up all modern music into one vast synthesis," may be questioned. Newman, as others have done, cites Michelangelo among great men with whom Wagner deserved to rank. It may one day be recognized that the two have not only commanding genius in common, but that they hold by no means dissimilar positions in the history of their respective arts. We look upon the exaggerations and fads in the art of the age succeeding Michelangelo with the same contemptuous pity for so much wasted talent and endeavor...
...three years ago Secretary McKibben of the Boston Chamber of Commerce and Dean Gay of the Business School had a conference on the subject of training men to meet this new condition in chamber of commerce work, but it was found that the time was not ripe for the establishment of such work in the school. The matter was recently brought up again by a member of the Boston Chamber of Commerce and after consulting Secretary E. H. Goodwin of the newly formed Chamber of Commerce of the United States, it was decided to lay out courses to be inaugurated...
...Stars and Bars. This question has been for some time agitated in the graduate publications as well as in the Advocate; we may hope that,--perhaps with the aid of the Forum,--its resurrection will result in a more satisfactory decision. But perhaps the time is not yet ripe...
After the war was over, he went South, bought up a plantation, and tried to improve the condition of the negroes, but failed because the time was not yet ripe. Upon returning North he went to work with the firm of which he is now a partner. He described his remarkable business success by briefly saying that he went to work and made good as best he could...
...condition which is usually demanded of all candidates, and that is the acceptance of at least one piece of prose. Short poems, do not carry an equal value with stories or articles. In general, five or six pieces of prose, or somewhat more of verse, will make a candidate ripe for consideration. A man who has been permitted to fufill these requirements is practically assured of election...