Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hour later the Oropesa pulled out of the harbor with the princes on board and a parting gift of twelve boxes of ripe red Bermuda strawberries. Four days later the slow Oropesa was in Havana harbor, dropped anchor for five hours. Possibly because of Cuban political unrest, officially because the British Court is still in mourning for the Princess Royal, H. R. H. Victoria, sister of King George, Their Royal Highnesses set no foot on Cuban ground. Only potent gentlemen to meet them were British Minister Thomas J. Morris, Cuban Secretary of State Francisco Maria Fernandez and President Machado...
...Each Armistice Day reminds us of the World War and the awful toll of death and suffering it brought to all humanity. If we are to avoid another such holocaust and if peace is to be maintained in Europe, a continent now fraught with jealousies and ripe for another conflict, there must be real disarmament. All the treaties and pacts in the world renouncing war will not suffice unless they provide for concrete reductions in military forces by all nations," continued Senator Walsh...
Plainly Great Britain's electoral system is ripe and rotten for reform. Everyone assumed at first last week that Prime Minister MacDonald, by promising this reform, had bought the votes of Liberal Leader David Lloyd George & cohorts, would use them to repeal the Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Bill. But prominent Liberals refused to confirm any such bargain. The promise of reform was evidently not a bribe, but a bait...
...this point, with the Opposition created, all seemed ripe for the crisis, but canny Fethi Bey decided to play super-safe. Not wishing to wake up some morning on a gibbet by mistake, the Leader of the Opposition harangued Parliament, proposed that the Deputies elect Mustafa Kemal Pasha-"our Glorious Ghazi, our Victorious One"-to be president of Turkey for life. (His second four-year term expires...
...with all things ripe for trouble, the battle will come before the war. Twelve years has not been too long for some people to remember; it has not even been long enough for some to forget. Neither in this country nor in many of the continental nations of Europe which have experienced a great growth of education coeval with the growth of nationalistic impulse in the past decade, will the flower of the nation blindly fling themselves in the dust. Youth has lost his patriotism and gained in understanding. If there is martyrdom and dying for the country it will...