Word: ripe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first discoveries, of incalculable value to farmers, was that seeds sprout most quickly if kept cold (41°) and dry between harvest and planting. Others followed in slow but steady succession. Some kinds of apples with green-colored skins may be just as ripe and tasty as red apples but suffer in market competition because buyers like the appearance of red apples. It was learned that 48 hours of ultraviolet radiation turns green-colored apples a beautiful, even, overall shade...
...Herr and Frau Göring left the Cathedral her train was carried not by bridesmaids but by "bridesboys," ripe, apple-cheeked Nazi favorites...
...social structure of the South. Reason for the nonappearance of such a cotton-picker is not sociological but technological. For 80 years men have tried to build a serviceable machine, and many a machine has been exhaustively tested. But the problem of taking in all or nearly all the ripe bolls without injuring green plants or gathering so much rubbish that ginning is impossible, seemed insuperable. International Harvester Co. is estimated (although it disclaims the figure) to have spent some $3,000,000 in cotton-picking research. Every year it sends experimental machines into the fields. But cotton is still...
...Prohibition, the Child Labor Amendment, the Federal Office of Education and the New Deal. Last February they began to pepper Washington with petitions against the "pink slip," flood the land with letters, circulars, advertisements, radio speeches urging citizens to write their Congressmen about the "outrage." The time was politically ripe because taxpayers were just making out their Federal returns, filling in the facts about their income on the pink slips that went with each return. Suddenly amazed Senators and Representatives discovered that their anti-pink slip mail was running even stronger than the Townsend Plan tide. The Bacon bill...
Though he still had his stout Republican purpose he saw that Rome was not yet ripe for it. To outsiders it looked as if Messalina's betrayal had turned him to the way of all Emperors: he married Agrippina, the wickedest woman in Rome, let her groom her son Nero for the throne, was apparently content to sit back and let the downward rush of history take its course. But there was method in his cynicism. Hoping that Rome would eventually tire of tyranny if it became too outrageous, he played King Log to the Roman frog-pond...