Word: papyrus
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...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...
...some 3rd Century papyri owned by Alfred Chester Beatty, onetime U. S. millionaire, now a British subject. Year ago the British Museum acquired some unidentified 2nd Century Greek papyri paralleling St. John (TIME, Feb. 4). Last December in the John Rylands Library of Manchester there suddenly turned up a papyrus scrap less than three inches square which Librarian Henry Guppy declared "priceless," a fragment of St. John supposedly written between...
...international fraternity of erudite men & women unite in the belief that a yellowed tooth, a scrap of papyrus or a piece of broken pottery may be a treasure beyond price. Doings of diggers lately...