Word: ripening
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...drivers lacking, while in certain districts old machinery had not been repaired at all. A repetition of last year's inability to harvest vast areas, including one section of 500,000 acres, threatened. In addition, peculiar weather conditions in some regions caused winter and spring wheat to ripen at the same time, made a doubly heavy harvest. But if Russians (with only half as many horses as before the Revolution) could overcome their combine difficulties, there seemed no reason why their harvest should be worse than last year...
...when ragweed fever begins, is their last sneezeless day till frost. Why the disease always strikes on August 15 is no nasal mystery, but merely another indication of Nature's regularity. As August 15 approaches, the shortening of daylight hours allows the ragweed plant precisely enough sunlight to ripen it on that day. And the number of hours of daylight and darkness for a given date is the same from year to year...
...ever been blessed throughout life as I have been.' And of all His blessings, this one stands high, that you are able to take up the refrain into your own life. With the confidence of the people of this diocese, which will, I know, ripen into affection, you will go in and out among them carrying the gospel of a joyful, grateful service, singing to yourself, 'Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless His Holy Name...
...crowd to warm a candidate's heart. When that candidate happens to be the President of the U. S. public curiosity alone will render the boss's job relatively simple. This week the New York Times solemnly warned President Roosevelt that October crowds do not necessarily ripen into November votes, recalled the sad cases of William Jennings Bryan in 1896, Alfred Emanuel Smith in 1928, both of whom drew record crowds for their periods, only to go down in defeat...
...baby (TIME, Jan. 7, 1935). Called bitterling, the female fish has a small tube protruding from her underside. When the bitterling is about to lay eggs, the tube lengthens and enables her to deposit her ova in the siphon of a fresh water mussel, among whose gills they ripen and hatch. Drs. Aaron Elias Kanter, Carl Philip Bauer & Arthur Herman Klawans of the University of Chicago discovered that a bitterling will stretch her ovipositor, whether or not she needs to lay eggs, if her bowl of water receives as little as one teaspoonful of urine from a pregnant woman. Female...