Word: papyrus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...liberal revolutionaries who founded the U. S. and French republics. Durant does not capitalize on that. His treatment of Greek literature is more warmly informative than the Encyclopaedia Britannica, but it is commonplace in taste and no match for the subject. His illustrations are less than adequate (no papyrus, no comic masks, no small pottery) though such selections as the archaic mask of "Agamemnon" (see cut) are fresh and effective. But throughout his big book he does show, with more restraint in analogy-making than could be expected after his previous books, that the history of Greek politics is relevant...
...hoarse, agreed that the race they feared might be as exciting as a warmed-over soufflé turned out to be just what last spring's publicity had promised: "the race of the century"-even more thrilling than the great Man o' War-Sir Barton (1920) and Papyrus-Zev (1923) match races...
...mount, Lord Woolavington's big Captain Cuttle, showed up lame just before the starting parade and the odds jumped to 10-to-1, Steve Donoghue rode to his smoothest Derby victory. When he won again the next year with Ben Irish's 100-to-15 shot Papyrus, he and his mount were sent to the U. S. to race against that year's Kentucky Derby winner, Zev, with famed Earl Sande up. Donoghue and Papyrus lost the race and Mr. Irish lost the $100,000 purse...
...must close now, for I want to finish pressing some papyrus. I've been to the Anapo River where the Arabs planted papyrus many years ago and it still flourishes abundantly. If ever I have anything important to say and the papyrus actually proves a success (neither of which is likely) I'll send you a letter...
Last week appeared the first complete, authoritative medical textbook on how to produce and prevent abortions.* Forty-six centuries ago a Chinese emperor wrote down the first medical prescription for bringing about abortions. A thousand years later an Egyptian described on papyrus the tools necessary for the surgical production of abortion...