Word: ripe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reid was in very poor health. It was during that period that he married Caroline Astor Drayton. Mrs. Phillips is a descendant of the Draytons whose name means as much in the history of Charleston, S. C. as her husband's does in Boston. In 1912 at the ripe age of 34, William Phillips retired to become regent of the college and Secretary of the Corporation of Harvard. Short-Sighted Hostess. In marrying Caroline Drayton, Mr. Phillips not only married more family and more money, but also
TIME'S comparison (Oct. 21, p. 56) of a ripe human ovum with a pinhead gives an inadequate concept of the true size of this interesting cell. Actually its diameter is but 1/200 in. This is about the size of the smallest grain of sand that could be seen with the unaided eye. Stated differently, a sphere having the diameter of a common pinhead (1/12 in.) possesses nearly 4,000 times the volume of a human egg. One can compute further that all the eggs needed to replace the present population of the world could be held...
...course in shorthand. At 21 he became city editor of the Aurora (Ill.) Evening Post. A few years later found him in Chicago, working for a firm of investment counselors, editing the financial section of the Chicago Tribune. With the failure of Moore Brothers in 1896, in a situation ripe for panic, he was able to prevent the news from being handled in a sensational manner, won the favorable attention of financiers. As an assistant secretary of the U. S. Treasury in McKinley's administration, his work in connection with Spanish-American War bond issues gained the notice...
...course in 1935. At his very elbow last week was the League of Nations in the person of grey-haired, ruddy-cheeked Sir Eric Drummond. As Secretary General of the League from its founding until he resigned amid widespread regret two years ago, this British Ambassador to Rome is ripe with "The Spirit of Geneva," "The Spirit of Locarno...
...ripe for a . . . replenishment program such as the world has never seen before. We need new cars, new houses, new clothes, new shoes, new radios with television, new air-conditioning in dwellings and work places. We need new foods, machinery, comforts and culture. We need to clean up and paint up. We need to raze thousands of antiquated factories and houses-rebuild, modernize...