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Word: ripely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Europe's Enlightenment was in full vigor; Denis Diderot's French Encyclopedic had just come out, and Britain was ripe for an up-to-date compendium of all knowledge. The Britannica's founders were Colin Macfarquhar, a small-business man of Edinburgh, and Andrew Bell, an engraver of dog collars, who stood 4½ ft. tall, and had a nose so embarrassingly big that he used to mock his mockers with an even larger one of papier-mache. Smellie, their 28-year-old choice for editor, spieled long Latin poems when drunk, and was celebrated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Rule, Britannica | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

...word of caution must be spoken to Catholics and Protestants alike. Catholics in their simplicity may easily think that the Protestant willingness to come nearer to Catholicism in doctrine and religious cult is a sign that Protestants are now ripe for conversion to the Catholic church. Such an interpretation of events would be woefully erroneous. We simply must face the fact that for the Protestant this action confirms him in his Protestantism." On the other hand, in the Protestant-Catholic dialogue, he said, the Protestant must understand "that the Catholic hasn't the slightest intention of becoming a Protestant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Era of Good Feeling? | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

...mistresses, bodyguards and generals, tailors, aides-de-camp, and such luminaries of the age as Goethe and Metternich. Out of the intimate, often lurid documentation emerges no hero but a devastating closeup of the man who convinced Frenchmen they were a race of heroes, and split nations apart like ripe fruit to show that "given 500,000 men, one can do anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No Hero | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

...friend would, Rocca grabbed Baum's head and squeezed. Result: one blocked nasal passage, aggravating an old injury, one canceled singing tour, one operation for Tenor Baum. Said he ruefully in the hospital: "One moment I had perfect pitch, the next a nose that felt like a ripe persimmon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 19, 1958 | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

...time is not ripe for a tax cut, said the council's antirecession committee, headed by Theodore V. Houser, chairman of Sears, Roebuck; but a cut may be needed if the economy continues to decline. In that case, the group favored an across-the-board slash in personal income tax rates; it did not go on record about corporate or excise taxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Confidence at Hot Springs | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

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