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Word: riper (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pledged themselves to market through it. Its board chairman: Julius Howland Barnes, onetime president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, one-time president of U. S. Grain Corp. Its counsel: Aaron Sapiro, famed co-operative organiser who sued Henry Ford for libel. Its promise to city housewives: Fresher, riper fruit and vegetables by reducing marketing delays from farm to table. Its hope: to borrow from the Federal Farm Board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: U. G. of A. | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

...grave, Mme. Jon Bratiano* swayed and seemed nigh to fainting. She was embraced and steadied by the Dowager Queen Marie, who, turning toward the coffin as it was lowered into the earth, apostrophized thus: "Great and good friend of my youth and of my riper years! As long as there is still breath in me, for all that I am worth I shall try with God's help to carry on and uphold King Ferdinand's and your great work. Amen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Vintila After Jon | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...lies in the students' race for graduation units, when that is an extremely minor issue? Why should a child, who would rather be playing ball than attending class, be faced with the serious problem of selecting his vocation or field of concentration? The proposition is sufficiently gross in his riper years. It would be well for the reformers to save the time of creating new answers to an old question by repeating this time-worn solution--raise the standards of the teachers in order to elevate the pupils...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANSWERING AN OLD QUESTION | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

Fifteen months ago this precocious young man, Dr. José Yanguas, then Professor of International Law at the University of Madrid, was given the portfolio of Foreign Minister (TIME, Dec. 14, 1925), an honor and a responsibility usually reserved for men of ripe age and riper experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Precocious Minister | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

...German Parliament, or Reichstag, one of the leading parties in point of numbers in Germany. . . . What strikes an American is the singular maturity of the young leader of the Nationalists. At 28 he would be two years short of eligibility for the United States Senate, but he has a riper knowledge of the world than four-fifths of our Senators. They grow up sooner in Europe than we do here. And, of course, Bismarck grew up in a family that had the tradition of ruling. . . . Any party which has the Prince as its leader is bound to be moderate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 1, 1926 | 2/1/1926 | See Source »

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