Word: sheafe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lithuania armed aid against Poland, but a glance at the geographical situation showed that the Red Army could not reach Lithuania without first invading Poland or Latvia. In less than 48 hours the Lithuanian Government, through their Minister at Tallin, Estonia, handed to the Polish Minister at Tallin a sheaf of promises to resume friendly relations and intercourse with Poland by rail, mail, telegraph...
What Artist Earle crossed the U. S. to see was not city life but countryside. Result: a sheaf of landscapes remarkable for their suggestion of distances, land masses and weather moods, a soft poem of U. S. mountains as Pare Lorentz' documentary movie, The River (TIME, Nov. 8), is a hard poem of U. S. rivers. In Desert Near Santa Fe he caught with a series of fine washes, quickly dried with the brush, the 90-mile, lucent light of the Southwest; in Color Splendor he framed the broad Shenandoah Valley. Critics who doubt the permanency of soft poems...
From this point on, the tradition becomes broader and the showing more ample. We can pursue it, in a second room, in several fine Ingres, in a Delacroix and a Gericault and a whole sheaf by Degas; we discover it, still potent, in four cartoons of pure line, by Picasso. Certainly in those two rooms we contemplate a wondrous diversity of the human spirit, conveyed by the mere line and surface of drawings...
...both these protests Premier Goga had an answer. Under the nose of the U. S. Minister he waved a sheaf of protests cabled by U. S. Jewish organizations. "These," he cried, "are merely impudent!" To Mr. Ostrovsky, the Foreign Office replied with a public announcement: "The Rumanian Government would in no way object to the departure of the Soviet Ambassador at an even earlier date...
When Senator Berry himself took the stand, TVA Lawyer Alvin Ziegler dramatically produced a sheaf of documents. These, presented to the three presiding commissioners, turned out to be powers of attorney issued by several farmers about the time the TVA act was passed to Partners Berry and Harris, authorizing them to act as their agents for a 50% commission in financial transactions with the Government...