Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eels, the only freshwater dwellers that descend to salt water to breed, are caught in great numbers and sizes (up to 8 ft., 3 in. for congers) as they go to sea in the autumn but the specimens are never sexually ripe. Sea dredging has hitherto brought to light no eel eggs, which are evidently laid at great depths. Laboratory observations have proved that eels spawn but once, dying immediately afterwards. All that ever comes back from the depths are transparent baby eels about 2 in. long, with which harbors and rivers teem in the spring. Before spawning, matured eels...
...charity luncheon at the Union League Club, Manhattan, produced a noticeable effect. The president, Banker Henry Fletcher, explained the purpose of the campaign-to raise $100,000 for the McAuley Water Street Mission. He talked about the Mission's history, activities. There was silence. Into this moment, ripe for emotional disturbance, John Markle threw his statement...
Opening last week at the Majestic after long runs in New York, Chicago, and points west, Mr. Shubert once again displayed for conservative Boston an all too ripe review--the lines diluted, the cast watered, the costumes, after the first few scenes at least, padded. Even the actors and the chorus seemed to realize that they were in Boston, that laughs would come hard, and --"oh what...
...United States Jeers the face of dictatorship. It has shown that the officials of the American Federation of Labor are traitors to the trust of their comrades are reactionaries who do not lead but mislead the members of the trade unions. It has shown that the time is ripe for he workers themselves to organize and forget the differences in their trades, religion and nationalities...
...second pair of concerts the New York Philharmonic gave the first U. S. performance of George Templeton Strong's* Vie d'Artiste, a symphonic poem for violin and orchestra. Josef Szigeti was the soloist, drew ripe measure of grave, cool beauty to paint the mood of a creator, peaceful as a flower at first, but bruised and beaten by a mocking Success back into a wiser contentment. Critics found it pleasant, a little sentimental. They commended Conductor Willem Mengelberg for introducing it, and for giving Bloch's Israel Symphony, that strong, honest portrayal of the suffering...