Word: hegira
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...against $29,851,069. Nor has the cherubic Hershey Trade Mark (see cut) had less reason than usual to symbolize smilingly Health, Purity and Nourishment. But there has been no gloom around the big, clean plant at Hershey, Pa. Those neighboring Mennonites who did not join the hegira to Brazil in 1928 still sniff the sweetish air, still curse their feeble appetites and mutter about "da chockle shtink" that permeates the neighborhood. Founder Milton Snavely Hershey, a ruddy-faced man of 74, still walks through his 50 acres of factory floor space, observing, commanding, happily nibbling. For while Hershey...
Various members of Radcliffe College believed that investiture was when lords and vassals exchanged clods of earth, that Hegira was a Mohammaden queen, and another that Hegira was a battle near Gibraltar...
...Murry intimates that Bertha Coutts. one of the least lovely characters in Lady Chatterlcy's Lover, was really Lawrence's own wife, Frieda von Richthofen, whom Lawrence at times hated but could not do without. Murry thinks Lawrence's horror of the War, his sense of persecution and consequent hegira to Italy, Australia, Mexico, the U. S.. his reiterated vituperation against all the Christian virtues, were really only reactions of impotence...
...rest of their duty: To guard the seals on their annual submarine hegira to the Pribilof Islands from the depredations of any hunters except Indians in canoes, armed only with spears or harpoons (TIME, March...
...this gray and wet week, the Vagabond has, however, found an item of peculiar cheer. He has never known which of the nine Muses that of Music is (some day he means to learn the names of all of them), but today he is making a short hegira to the Music Building at 10 o'clock to hear Mozart's Concerto in D minor. The score is written for two pianos and is one of the best known and most interesting of the composer's works, and the Vagabond knows that he will hear it ably rendered by Mr. Frank...