Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...GENERAL'S RING?Selma Lagerlof ?Doubleday Doran ($2.00). Genius is sometimes dependable. Selma Lagerlof, ripe with the years and their laurels, can still spin a worthy tale of peasant simplicities and spectral horrors. Dreary and revengeful, General Lowenskold's ghost hovered near the priceless ring that had been stolen from his tomb. The unhappy thief suffered?his barns burned down, his wife was drowned?but he dared not confess looting a grave, mortal offense. In time, the jewel of ill wake passed with its spectral guardian through unwitting, but nevertheless harassed, owners to the very descendants of Lowenskold...
...enlargement of the Stadium offers little scope for fresh ideas. Yet the time is ripe for an architectural competition, ensuring Harvard of the best plans obtainable in the United States. And the subject is also ready to hand--the new memorial chapel. First "architects' drawings" of this structure caused a storm of protest and ridicule. The site of the new chapel presents in itself a difficult architectural problem, and architects from all over the country should be given their chance to solve...
...lines and he did not want the same thing to happen with airlines. For four years, he planned T. A. T., Inc., with Mr. Keys and executives of the Santa Fe Railroad, Wright Aeronautical Corp., National Air Transport, Inc. (carriers of U. S. mail), and others. "The time is ripe . . .," said General Atterbury last week when T. A. T., Inc., sprang into the public eye as a $5,000,000 corporation and a board of directors which was worth noting as a group of U. S. air leaders...
Intellectual and social relations with Princeton we have never severed. The time seems ripe for a gradual recementing of athletic ties. The trouble concerned football alone, why not, then, renew our meetings in the other sports...
...from firms which hoped for further orders. Thus the German Lufthansa company presented to His Majesty a seven-seater three-motored airplane. Generally speaking the Monarch's circumspection in letting contracts or concessions may be considered as due to the fact that the securities market is not yet ripe for any investment in Afghanistan. As the country becomes gradually civilized-a process which King Amanullah is furthering by every means in his power-Afghanistan will indeed open up as a land of richest mineral promise and virgin soil...