Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Personally, there is only one item I object to and that is where I advocate the players should not eat bananas. This should read "unripe bananas" as I have no objection to the fruit when it is ripe...
...permanently clerical positions to the fly-by-night promoter. Although at Harvard such advances have never becomes the nuisance they seems to be at Yale, where, according to Mr. Crawford, the rap at the door disturbs April as well as September evenings, the principle of protection seems to be ripe for application in almost every college...
...British and of having refused to accept the German viewpoint in several important issues. Dr. Stresemann plainly wanted to know if it were not possible for Austria and Germany to pull together in the League-no doubt with the idea of pushing the anschluss through, "when the time is ripe...
...called a reminisceful mood. "Nothing", said Herodotus, "gives such weight and dignity to a book as an appendix", and he might well have paraphrased his own remark and said that nothing gives such dignity to a man as a genealogy. And so the Student Vagabond, having arrived at the ripe old age of three years, intends to delve into the past, and see what he can find; like the oysterman who drops his rake through the dark waters with the hope of bringing to light at least a few of his stolid prey and perhaps sometimes a rare...
...less effective within its range. To demonstrate it at the Waco Cotton Fair, he hitched a mule to a two-wheeled wagon which bore the contraption, a pump that sucked air like a vacuum-cleaner through long flexible tubes. One man led the mule and cart between ripe cotton bushes. At each side of the mule walked a man with a tube from the vacuum pump strapped to a wrist. These men darted their hands at ripe cotton; the tubes with a soft hiss sucked the white bolls from brittle pods. A swift-handed picker can gather several hundred pounds...