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...years of Palestine archaeology), which offer a clue to Palestine's early economy and confirm that the men of Gibeon were not only "hewers of wood and drawers of water" but also drinkers of wine. Since the jars bear the names of wine-making firms (Hananiah, Azariah and Amariah), they also offer scholars one of the largest finds of Hebrew writing of an era some 500 years before the Dead Sea Scroll period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Pool of Gibeon | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

Similarly fixed is Dr. Vedanayakam Samuel Azariah, Anglican Bishop of Dornakal. His diocese is the fastest-growing in the world for he touches India's untouchables. Finding their lot hopeless under the Brahmans, these outcasts have professed Christianity at the rate of 10,000 a year, as fast as the clergy could instruct them. Most of the money for this and other missionary work in India comes from the great British missionary boards-one of which, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, sent out such famed 18th-Century missionaries to the U. S. as Methodist John Wesley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Orphaned Missions | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

Arunah Abell and his partners, two other printers named Azariah Simmons and William M. Swain, had already founded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Century of Suns | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

...thousand, four hundred volumes and 6,700 pamphlets were added to the Yale library last year. The largest contribution ever made to the library was a recent bequest of $15,000 from Mrs. Azariah Eldridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/13/1894 | See Source »

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