Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last summer Senator Simeon Davison Fess of Ohio, chairman of the Republican National Committee, decided that the time was ripe for him to build a new home at Yellow Springs. He had savings tucked away in three building & loan associations which would serve as a starter. He went to a banker friend and asked him for a $6,000 mortgage loan. Throwing up his hands in horror the banker declared: "Oh, Senator, we can't make any more loans at present. While we're sound, we must remain in a liquid condition." Senator Fess, disappointed, went...
...Daily, in reply to a letter in its columns, which suggests flaunting the axe at the big game against the Golden Bears. "Of course, Stanford is proud of the 21 who carried it off from under the very noses of the California guardians...But the time is not yet ripe for bringing out the axe." Whatever California wood, it will haft to take a back back: the Golden edge has departed...
...made by picking forty or fifty beefy and eugenically perfect specimens, the best of, let us say, two thousand, five hundred and teaching them football. The football star of today is nurtured and developed over a period of years. He is cultivated in various football hothouses until he is ripe for transplanting in this school or that...
Native sentiment for independence is politically organized and vocal, but not conclusively a majority. Opposition to independence is large, timid, unorganized. Politics is a big local industry which has outstripped economics. The islands are not yet ripe for freedom. They need economic development. It would be bad enough to turn them loose in good times but immediate independence during Depression would be their ruin...
...employing for their own development the unearned increment of centuries. Or if destined for the public service, naval, military or civil, or for the professions, they might enter upon their future careers directly from the "public school." And, to a surprising degree, they justified their special privileges, developing into ripe scholars, as profound and unpretentious, skillful and public-spirited political leaders, or as honest, efficient civil servants. As a result, England enjoyed and still enjoys, an unsurpassed leadership in scholarship, in politics and in colonial administration, whether judged from the point of view of intellectual adequacy or personal integrity...