Word: ripe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time is as ripe for a conference as it has been in the last seven years. Churchill's proposal catches Russia in the middle of her peace offensive where she can hardly be caught refusing the offer. Whether a talk will accomplish anything is another problem, depending entirely upon Russia's willingness to make concessions...
...vocational use for a law education is no reason to deny them their earned and confirmed right to get one if they want it. Their actions have also disqualified them from the kind of military position law students are expected to fill. Certainly this does not make them ripe for service. The Lubells, along with all other students, are ready to serve in the military once their education is completed. They cannot be more dangerous security risks then. If anything, another year at the Law School may, as hoped in the Faculty statement, clear some of the fuzziness from their...
...history of public health at Harvard goes back to 1913 when the school originated as an experiment called The School of Public Health Officers of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. President Lowell of Harvard had long nurtured an interest in preventive medicine. When the time was ripe, he gave the go-ahead to a group of Harvard and M.I.T. doctors to form the school. Taking the Department of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene in the Medical School as a nucleus, they began operating in the fall of 1913. Seven students formally registered in this--the first school...
...faction, this gave them a solid 100-man obstructionist bloc in the Senate, and golden opportunities for delaying and debauching the democratic process, as they proved in the Palm Sunday rumpus over electoral reform (TIME, April 6), when furniture flew and members grappled. Last week, the time and opportunity ripe, Premier Alcide .de Gasperi decided to move against his Communist enemies in the Senate. Five years having passed since the last election, it was constitutionally mandatory to dissolve the lower Chamber and order a new election; Senators serve for six years, and still have a year...
...country." Even London's Laborite Daily Mirror had a kind word for Bertie McCormick: "Now he is with us once more . . . and has been summing us up again. Bless him. Bless his stupid old rancorous heart." The News Chronicle even suggested the time might be ripe to open the question of "a Treaty of Friendship and Mutual Esteem between Britain and the colonel...