Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This line-up omits all the members of last year's undefeated Freshman eleven, several of whom are generally considered to be ripe for regular intercollegiate service. When it is considered, however, that there are barely three weeks in which to put together a winning eleven, it can readily be seen that some time must of necessity be allowed the new men to assimilate the Horween system before they can be thrown into the front line of battle...
City dwellers with beery intent slip into shadowy doorways, knock or ring cabalistically, whisper passwords through peepholes, gratings, chained portals. Dry-voting country dwellers blithely bear in the grape and the apple, press the ripe fruit, catch the juice, hoard it away. When winter comes they have a convivial cup. Long and loudly have urbanites protested this disparity of Prohibition. Last week city men envied country men when Prohibition Commissioner James M. Doran issued to his agents this edict: "The National Prohibition act authorizes . . . unrestricted manufacture of non-intoxicating cider and fruit juice in the home. . . . Conditions: . . . 1) it shall...
...received his diploma from Viscount Grey of Falloden, Chancellor of the University, statesman, bird-lover, fly-caster. In presenting the diploma Viscount Grey recited a long discourse in Latin ripe with many a classical pun. Myopic, he could not read the speech, was forced to memorize it. Toward the end his memory failed...
Presently President Portes Gil announced that only $7,500,000 had been spent by the Government in putting down the insurrection. Considerably more than this picayune sum is spent by U. S. housewives in a single season on ripe, red Mexican tomatoes...
...American Expeditionary Force in France in 1918-1919, his long conflict with the opium traffic, his enthusiastic interest in international affairs, which made the students feel in him a man who had had a share in the great life of the world, who brought to them the ripe fruit of experience and sought to quicken in them devotion to the life in God and for men, the life which he himself so ardently lived...