Word: ripen
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...King's activity is of a different sort from that of the late Prince Consort Albert, who toiled night & day over the lustiest and most arduous matters of state but it does suggest that Edward VIII has stuff in him likely to ripen on the Throne. No woman has ever pleased Majesty unless she was what King Edward calls "snappy" - that is, active, a good dancer, ebullient, high-strung. In horses he has the same taste and the number of ebullient horses which have fallen with His Majesty, spraining his ankle, breaking his collarbone, once kicking him squarely...
...plan includes extensive planting of frost-resisting crops of the sort developed by the late Ivan Michurin, the Burbank of Russia. A start has already been made with tomatoes, cucumbers and lettuce grown under glass at Khibina, inside the Arctic Circle, and with potatoes and cabbage that ripen outdoors in the wan, fleeting summer...
...subsequent children is a belief common among parents. Though the ratio of malformed first-born to normal first-born is so small as to discredit this belief on its face, the explanation usually advanced is that a woman needs practice in conception and child bearing, that she must ripen before her womb bears perfect fruit...
...whose work is creative reach a peak of productivity at 35, except for poets, who bloom earlier, and astronomers, who ripen after 40.-Professor Harvey C. Lehman, Ohio University...
...Christ"; Bed Reader. When Howard Hughes sold Jean Harlow to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it helped to ripen her friendship with Paul Bern, one of MGM's ablest associate producers. Handsome, slender, melancholy, brilliant and distinguished by his profound sympathy for other people's troubles, Paul Bern was called by his friends "a motion picture Christ." The phrase had no wide currency until Labor Day, 1932-the day, two months after his marriage to Jean Harlow, that Paul Bern was found naked in his bathroom, face down and dead, with a bullet in his brain. His friends might have...