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Printed on fine paper the original scroll was six feet, eight inches long, and two feet, 5-16 inches in width, but years of deterioration have reduced it to a mere fragment of three feet in length. It was remounted, when discovered, on a substantial silk cloth...
...specimen, one of the earliest examples of printing in the world and the only exhibit of its kind in America, is a Chinese prayer scroll, recovered from the famous Red Pagoda in Hangchow after nearly ten centuries of burial...
...motor truck over spring-breaking roads came Red Finance Commissar Lin Po-chu. It was as if Earl Browder should send one of his Communist henchmen on Washington's Birthday to honor the capitalist Father of His Country. Bland and self-possessed, Red Lin produced a scroll which he said was from the brush of Red Mao-as likely a story as though it should be claimed that Comrade Browder had written a speech in Chaucerian English or Attic Greek...
...throngs that pressed into the Museum last week came not only to listen to music but to honor David Mannes. A citizens' committee headed by Mayor LaGuardia presented the old man with an elaborate scroll. On it Novelist John Erskine had written: In the twentieth year of your concerts...
...Eternal Road begins in the depths of an ancient musty synagogue, somewhere in central Europe, some time in the Dark Ages. A terrified congregation has fled there for protection from their Aryan neighbors. To comfort and strengthen them the rabbi and his elders bring out the Scroll of the Law from the Ark and begin singing the history of their melodramatic race...