Word: sheaf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chippewa men, standing erect in the bows, pole their canoes into the rice fields. In the stern of each canoe sits a squaw, holding in each hand a wooden flail. Gently, lest the plants be hurt, she presses a sheaf of rice stalks between the flails, bends the sheaf over the side of the canoe. Gently still, the flails knock the ripened heads off the stalks. The rice falls on a canvas cloth or into a birchbark basket; the canoe moves on; the rest of the grain sinks to the fertile mud on the bottom of the lake, to take...
...little as they liked to, they admitted that if Germany controls post-war Europe, they will trade with Germany. Before adjourning they passed a sheaf of resolutions. Among them: 1) gold is valuable; 2) the Johnson Act should be repealed; 3) the Hull reciprocal trade agreements are fine...
...meeting in Manhattan, Mr. Knott took his latest model irradiating machine, an oblong box of stainless steel, about two feet long. All week long, young Dr. Miley, aided by his associate Dr. Alfred Tuttle, demonstrated the machine to thousands of curious doctors, showed them a sheaf of experimental records from Hahnemann. Of 27 irradiated cases of septicemia (bloodstream infection), said he, 22 recovered; 71 irradiated cases of other bloodstream infections, including peritonitis and septic abortion, all recovered...
These three long domed Dwight Macdonald, hoarse voiced Frederick W. Dupee, pale-browed George Lovett Kingsland Morris-put out their first post-graduation magazine in 1930: a slim, self-conscious sheaf called Miscellany that lasted one year. Their later vehicle, the Partisan Review, was first published in 1934 as an organ of the John Reed (Leftist writers') Club of New York, among its editors being two literate Leftists named Philip Rahv and William Phillips. Writer Dupee meanwhile drank at the revolutionary fount in Mexico, returned to Manhattan to work for the New Masses. What threw him and Rahv...
...Congress was ready to award him $100,000, but Chemist Jackson stormed Washington, violently denounced Morton as a fraud, claimed that he had given Morton the tip on the powers of ether. Up popped Dr. Long with a sheaf of documents to prove that he was first. Confronted by conflicting claims, Congress did nothing. Morton died a pauper in 1868. Jackson went mad, died in an asylum several years later. During the Civil War, Long buried his documents in the woods. Later he dug them up and stored them in the garret. He died an embittered...