Word: ripening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which has passed over an apple . . . contains some subtle emanations which profoundly influence other vegetable forms. Potatoes placed in the stream either do not sprout or, if they do. the sprouts are misshapen dwarfs, more like warts than anything else. Bananas are excited to a much more rapid ripening than ordinarily. It is only elderly apples which pour out these emanations, and the effect on young unripe apples is again curious, for they are stirred to more rapid progress. They ripen more quickly. It is as though the elderly apple were "jealous of youth, and would destroy...
Ragweed began to ripen and send its pollen (ten billion grains to the plant) into the air last week. In consequence, some two million peculiarly sensitive residents of the U. S. began to snuffle & weep with their annual attacks of hayfever. New York City, Chicago and smaller communities hired men to pull up every stalk of ragweed within city limits. For one day's pulling Chicago paid 25? and a ticket good for a week's room & board in a charity shelter. Sales of home air filterers perked up. If his sleeping quarters are free from dust...
...regulations at present are a petty and annoying hinderance to the formation and continuance of friendships which men make with students resident in other Houses. The contacts made in the classroom and in extra-curricular activities most easily ripen into friendship over the iced-tea and the Boston baked beans. The House Plan recognizes that this is true, and throws men together for their meals that they may learn to know one another. The system now in operation, however, in effect limits the influence to the individual Houses, and may, as the House Plan succeeds, result in severing the ties...
Northwestern University announces apparently with some pride that it will enroll next fall six youthful prodigies between the ages of thirteen and fifteen. Who have met all the requirements for admission this projected establishment of a "mental hothouse" to train precocious young boys and ripen them into geniuses may seem alluring to such students, but will scarcely command the unqualified approval of educators...
...York will . . . rise a great, white, shining city, such as the world has never known, and men will be more at peace there than anywhere on the earth. . . . But I know what will happen in 200 years. . . . New York will be like a ripe apple. All things must ripen. And then New York will drop away. Its vast population will move southward. There will be no coal to keep the millions warm here. . . . All of this that we are building will mean nothing except something for men to remember for a thousand years-the great steel city. ... Its climax will...