Word: asher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first printed code of orthodox Jewish life was published a quarter-century after the Gutenberg Bible (1452). It was Rabbi Jacob 'ben Asher's famed Arba Turim (Code of the Jews). For five centuries it disappeared from the sight of orthodox Jews. Lately it was found in Italy bearing on its Hebraic pages three visas of papal inquisitioners who had examined it for heresies. Last week it was taken to Manhattan and placed in the Jewish Theological Seminary. It was purchased with funds (of concealed volume) donated by Theatrical Producer Abraham Lincoln Erlanger...
...Haven, Conn., May 31 John Asher Brandenburg of Pineville, Kentucky, a junior in the Sheffield Scientific School, has been elected captain of the Yale track team for next season...
...Stephenson had by this time bought an airplane and with one Court Asher, a onetime army aviator, his secretary, clerk, and majordomo, he toured Indiana, talking to the crowds that came out on the fields to hear him. Sometimes he talked in the afternoons; sometimes at night by searchlights. Once, at Kokomo, there were 75,000 listeners around his golden plane and when he told of the dangers of Catholicism and described his hatred for Negroes and Jews, women pulled jewels* from their fingers and men tore their pockets to give him money for "the cause." Mr. Stephenson would save...
Zarakov turned in a pair of sparkling plays on ground balls to the hot corner and the remainder of the Crimson inner defense gave tight support in the field. The visiting garden trio shone brightly while the infielders were messing up everything they touched. Asher robbed Ellison of a triple in the fourth when he gathered in his long drive after a hard...
...twelve tribes of Isreal are: Reuben, Simeon, Judah Issachar, Ephraim, Benjamin. Zebulun, Manasseh, Dan, Asher, Naphtali...