Word: ripe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years between divide the Senior from the Freshman like a grand canyon, sometimes. Until a day or two ago we didn't realize how ripe and mellow, free from care and worry, three years and odd months at Harvard can make a fellow. With our thesis half completed and a ticket on the Monarch of Bermuda in the drawer, life was nothing but a brave new world of dreams. Yet suddenly a tale of horror struck a note of tragedy into our symphony of pleasure, stark tragedy crashed mightily about our cars...
WITH the echoes of presidential campaigning dying away in the distance, and the screaming of impassioned politicians now scarcely audible, the time is ripe for an honestly dispassionate analysis of Mr. Roosevelt's administration. Before the election any writing which so much as sniffed at political questions was rudely branded either wholly Democratic or purely Republican. Any work of scholarship which dared to peek around a political corner was immediately seized, and the blight of partisanship was forever stamped upon its cover. Republican voters road Republican pamphlets, and convinced Democrats smiled disdainfully at Herbert Hoover's while fetching a dollar...
Another guffaw followed this sentence, which the President read with ripe irony. He paused, grinned, then resumed: "In the Federal courts there are in all 237 life tenure permanent judgeships. Twenty-five of them are now held by judges over 70 years of age and eligible to leave the bench on full pay. Originally no pension or retirement allowance was provided by the Congress. ... In exceptional cases, of course, judges, like other men, retain to an advanced age full mental and physical vigor. Those not so fortunate are often unable to perceive their own infirmities. 'They seem...
...indictment of the judiciary. The transition was most inappropriate when he took the NRA--one measure ruled out unanimously by the Supreme Court--as his starting point. It would seem to be a jealous cleaving to hasty, ill-advised past action and all its implications. Now the time is ripe for its antithesis, carefully, intelligently, and constitutionally planned reform. If the federal government cannot find a present basis for change--and all avenues are not yet closed--it can propose new law by the regular process of amendment. Then and then only will the reforms receive thorough consideration, only then...
...George Olver Tamblyn of the Manhattan firm of Tamblyn & Tamblyn, began to bombard the desks of U. S. school executives with a brochure called Now Is the Time. Thesis of Now Is the Time is that schools are not sharing sufficiently in the national recovery, that the time is ripe once more for Alma Mater to put out her hand...