Word: sheaf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...July 26), a role which he has played so successfully that the Belgian franc is stabilized (TIME, Nov. 8), and a new momentary unit, the belga circulates. To signalize the definite success of his administration, King Albert's last act as "dictator," last week, was to cancel a sheaf of emergency taxes, notably the 10% tax on foreigners' hotel bills...
...CRIMSON content for the best essays on the University's eating problem closed at 8 o'clock last right. Undergraduate interest in the dietetic dilemma gave rise to a considerable sheaf of manuscripts. It is expected that several practicable plans will emerge from the assortment of ideas...
...promptings of his extraordinary political intuition- promptings which he has ever translated into action with disconcerting speed. Last week these sanguinary omens may be presumed to have fired his brain afresh. While most Italians slept he harangued a meeting of all but one of his ministers. By morning a sheaf of Cabinet decrees were issued which bade fair to alter the whole course of daily life in Italy. Decrees. I. Italian employers are empowered at once and until further notice to lengthen the working day of their employees by one hour, while paying them the same daily wage as heretofore...
...after the state primary had given Johnson a plurality, McCamant read a sheaf of letters and several affidavits to show that he had opposed Johnson openly before his own choice as a delegate. The small, thin Judge, with dark hair and snapping blue eyes, appeared to be rather keyed up for the occasion. He read from one letter, written in 1920, saying that Senator Johnson was not a good American...
...Washington, U. S. capital, the Russian Information Bureau released last week a most significant sheaf of comments upon the present dramatic season in Moscow...