Word: ripe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every point of unemployment. They have been assured the funds necessary which will meet the situation. . . . The Federal Farm Board secured higher prices to the farmer than would have been obtained otherwise. . . . The failure of a large number of farmers and of country banks was averted. . . . The time is ripe for forward action to expedite our recovery...
...fertilized human egg-cell under a super-powerful microscope, and study it under all sorts of conditions without removing it from the body that contained it, he might be able to tell whether that cell would become a still-born child or one that would live to ripe age. The biologist cannot do that, but he is learning more & more about the nature of cells, and with each new bit of cell knowledge comes new knowledge of the nature of human beings, who are just cells multiplied and grown up. Last spring Dr. Francis Ferdinand Lucas, microscopist of Bell Telephone...
...gruesome or sleazy photographs which opens in a vacant store, boldly advertised as an "appeal to justice" or a "lesson in morality." Usually the pictures are unpublished newsphotos of current crime. The patron may be lured in by "free admission," then coaxed to pay 25^ to see an extra-ripe display behind a curtain; or he may be held up at the exit to contribute to a "fund for the impoverished victims." Into such a "crime prevention" exhibit on Los Angeles' South Main Street two months ago walked one Hugh Plunkett. On the wall he found photographs...
Before They Were Men records the school careers of Sleepy Carter and Shadow O'Neill, intermittent enemies but mostly pals, from the greenness of "rats" (new boys) to the ripe old age which will land them in the University. At outs with each other, either was a guileful foe; together they considered themselves invincible. Typical escapade: When Shadow nearly won the reading competition by a dramatic recital of Poe's "The Telltale Heart" Sleepy stole the show by surreptitious drumbeating, by launching a large heart-shaped balloon at the climax. But Author Wertenbaker does not always load...
...plays hard. Especially on its socialite Main Line northwest of the city-in Radnor, Haverford, Merion, Ardmore, Bryn Mawr -where live the people who appear in the Sunday society supplements, is life regarded as a cocktail free to all who would drink. Such gay communities as socialite Philadelphia are ripe for tragedy. Last week tragedy appeared there...