Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dragon's blood. Prized in varnishes, pharmacy, 12,034 lbs. of dragon's blood were imported in 1911; 58,000 lbs. in 1923. As not everyone knows, dragon's blood is a red resin oozing from the ripe fruit of East Indian, Moluccan, Siamese palms...
...there were milder settlers in California who dreamed of golden grain and ripe fruits. When a small group of these beheld. 30 miles east of busy, sprawling Los Angeles, a hill profuse with oranges, lemons, apricots, peaches, it was also quite natural that they should invoke an Italian legend and call the spot Pomona.* Pomona it became when it was settled...
Pricked is another bubble that the years had ballooned into a ripe and respected size. The legend surrounding Radcliffe's ivory towera and its bespectacled inmates must yield to the pressure of figures, cold, exact figures...
...have attained a ripe age. My children number three. And I see no reason why a gentleman should take other than Acton's view...
...already possess the right to appoint our own Governor-General! I doubt, however, whether the time is ripe for such action...