Word: papyruses
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...Negro slaves were illiterate before emancipation, some having attended clandestine schools. ¶ The Egyptian Government, in the 2nd Century, kept papyrus pay-vouchers from grain-hauling camel and donkey drivers. ¶ Americans in the Southwest, angered by British boundary limitations, were ready to revolt...
Publications which challenged the winner were the Blair Breeze, the Exonian, the Hill News, The Meteor of the Virginia Episcopal School. The Philippians of Andover, the Mercersberg News, the Red and White of St. George's, the Reserve Record of the Western Reserve Academy, and the Taft Papyrus...
...winner of the second annual school newspaper contest conducted by the CRIMSON, it was announced by the judges last night. The cup in the first annual competition last year was won by the Choate News. Honorable mention in the contest just closed was given to the Taft Papyrus, of the Taft School, Waterbury, Connecticut, and the Hill News, published by the Hill School, Pottstown, Pennsylvania...
Schools from all over the eastern half of the United States contributed to the competition just closed. Among the more prominent entries were The Exonian, The Hill News, The Taft Papyrus, The Middle-sex Anvil, The Hotchkiss Review, The Mercersburg News, The Loomis Log, The Riverdale Review, The Peddie News, and the St. Paul Record...
...Egypt a thin-shanked scribe squatted cross-legged and on a broad sheet of papyrus spread across his lap drew, with brush dipped into ink-the hieroglyphics of his master's discourse. That too was writing...