Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weekly $200. - ED. Straightened Murphy Sirs: "Publisher Murphy . . . straightened his spine by special exercises at the age of 48." (TIME, Sept. 4, p. 14.) No more stooped than 90 % of TIME readers. I have for years sought an exercise that would result in an erect carriage. Arrived at the ripe old age of 40, had thought it now too late to attempt it further. TIME's remark gives encouragement. Possibly just one of Wheat Man Murphy's exercises would be news. . . . Just another "cover-to-cover" reader. JOHN M. BEARD Delphos, Ohio TIME erred in attributing Frederick Murphy...
Garr himself lived to a prematurely ripe age, died the owner of $40,000,000, the biggest newspaper west of the Mississippi, a reputation so sinister that it made men hold their noses but pretend they were simply using their handkerchiefs...
...Canada passed a law requiring that her banking statutes should be inspected and overhauled every ten years. They were so overhauled in 1880, 1890, 1900, 1913, 1923. Due again to be revised this year, they were fuller than ever before of political dynamite. Battered by Depression, Canada was ripe for change. Her prairie provinces, after years of low grain prices and inspired by the New Deal across the border, were ready for political revolt. The C.C.F. (Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, nicknamed "Cocofed"), a radical organization not unlike the U.S. Farmer-Labor Party, was preparing to raise hob. Canada's banks...
...Peiping jovial Feng flatly denied that Japanese with bombing planes have recaptured Dolonnor. "Lies! Lies!" he grinned when told that the recapture had just been confirmed by both Chinese Premier Wang Ching-wei and the Japanese War office. Still grinning and munching ripe fruit, War Lord Feng pulled out of Peiping on his special train for Tientsin. Half way there he and his regiment changed to an armored train sent up from Shantung Province by his fellow war lord Governor Han Fu-chu of Shantung whom he appears to trust. Under Han's protection Feng lived during the summer...
...oranges were choice Valencias, tree-ripened to ruddy perfection. Ordinarily they would have spoiled during water transit without refrigeration. But shippers were not deliberately throwing away 7,500 cases aboard the uniced Dorothy Luckenbach: their ripe oranges were completely protected and preserved by a thin film of paraffin...