Word: ripening
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...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...
...writing as well as great reporting. The story holds together toughly through many intricacies of men and motives. To answer people's questions as to why he considers it necessary or important to write authentically, seriously about U. S. gangsters, Author Burnett quotes shrewd Renaissance Reporter Macchiavelli : "You sow ripen." He hemlock, and thinks that expect to see "crime, the ears of corn Chicago brand at least ... is an indication of vitality" (TIME, June 17). As a creative writer, he is interested in all things vital, however irrelevant they may seem to the scheme of things orderly...
...what of the man who must earn his way without the aid from home? He carries one or sometimes two jobs on the side, rushes from his work to his books, and from his books to his exams. He never has an opportunity to allow his studies to ripen in his mind. For four years he is subjected to a grind which little by little disheartens him and he never gets his head above water to enjoy the broader contacts College should give him. Let him approach ever so near the Dean's List--three...