Word: hegira
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hegira. Even if men and materials were to be had, the problem of distributing them was next to insoluble. For every road in the area was choked with refugees, not only a half million that had left Barcelona, but thousands more that the advancing Rebels swept before them. It was one of history's greatest and most tragic hegiras. From heights on the French frontier as far as eye could see a steady river of humanity slowly rolled toward the border...
...spent an interesting but uncomfortable and. at times, hair-raising three weeks in our hegira. As we crossed Siberia we began to hear more about the elusive guerrilla commander of the White Russians, General Semenov (pronounced Sem-yon-off). At Irkutsk, while our train was delayed for a fews hours, I hired a scared izvoztchik (cabby) to drive me around the downtown part of the city. Fresh shell scars on the public buildings and a great pit in the public square containing several hundred lime-covered bodies were mute evidences of a recent raid by Semenov. Farther east our train...
...March 1915, George Busby Christian Jr., 42, was general sales manager of White Sulphur Stone Co. of Marion. Ohio. That year marked a hegira of Ohio Republicans to Washington, D. C. Harry Micajah Daugherty, a rising power in Ohio politics, was just sending a Marion publisher named Warren G. Harding to Washington as Senator...
There is little or no justification for such a policy, for in some fields, such as modern languages, the advantages to be gained from a year's sojourn in Europe are many and obvious; moreover, unless there should result a hegira to the Continent in large numbers--which would be extremely unlikely--it is difficult to see why the University should object to men financially able in taking advantage of this opportunity. It should abandon its obscurantist tactics and put the transferral of credits on a rational basis, recognizing that for some men a year spent abroad...
When Counsel Untermyer discovered in what deadly earnest the brokers' hegira was going forward, and realized what it would do to realty values, he reconsidered his advice to the Mayor. Perhaps their taxes would be disastrous, after all. The Mayor's massive countenance clouded as he vetoed the taxes and rumbled resignedly: "I am confronted with a sitiation beyond my control, wherein serious and pressing conclusions must be made...