Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cells of plants-and presumably animals too-is a mysterious mechanism, incredibly small, that rules heredity in accordance with precise mathematical laws. In 1866 Mendel published a paper to this effect in the proceedings of the Brünn Natural Science Society, but nothing happened. The world was not ripe for his ideas. In 1868, when he was appointed abbot of his monastery, his scientific career came...
Governments often live to a ripe old age in Canada, but none in the nation's history had lived as long as the Liberal regime in the central prairie province of Manitoba. Last week, after 43 years, the regime at last lost a provincial election-just one year after the fall of the national Liberal government that had ruled for 22 years...
...count. One of the few exceptions was a device that Pliny the Elder (23-79 A.D.) said was used to harvest grain on the great estates of Roman Gaul. It had, he said, a large frame fitted with teeth and carried on two wheels. When pushed through ripe wheat by a pair of oxen, the toothed frame tore the heads from the stalks and collected them...
...sense of the report," summed up Amsterdam's Roman Catholic daily De Tijd, "comes down to this . . . The great design which was proclaimed like a trumpet call throughout The Netherlands-to make the Papuans ripe for independent activity in all fields-remains a slogan...
...Young has taught for ten years, asked him to do a translation for a dramatics group. The play: Aristophanes' The Frogs, which, because it is less scabrous than most other Greek comedies, is the one most often served up in freshman courses. But even mild Aristophanes is as ripe as Roquefort, and scholars' English translations tend toward the tepid. Young's translation of The Puddocks (frogs) does...