Word: hegira
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a five-year hegira in both leagues, Lupien was deported to the Pacific Coast League in 1944. Apparently finding the 3000 mile distance from the Hub of the Universe somewhat depressing, he proceeded to confuse the opposition hurlers by speaking grammatically correct English and hitting the ball where there was an absence of outfielders...
Ever since than contest, except for a ten-year gap from 1912 to 1922 and a four-year wart-time halt, the annual gridiron struggle with the Crimson has always promoted an Indian hegira from their reservation in Hanover to the relatively "big city" gaiety...
...last-minute change in the meeting's site, made to accommodate the overflow crowd, resulted in a mad hegira to New Lecture Hall that caused British poet Auden to murmur, "It was rather frightening...
...revamped tribe of Dartmouth Indians will do its inhospitable best tonight to spoil the Varsity basketball team's annual hegira to the hills of Hanover, where the teams meet in an Ivy League contest...
...ferryboat rides across the dragonlike Yangtze; discourses on the world and its state; days with abbots, poets, children and cymbal-beating actors. Above all, Payne admires and respects China's students and professors, the guardians of the past and the planners of the future, whose great hegira from the coast to the interior never fails to fill him with wonder. ". . . All that is best io China is crystallized in their presence." Forever China is a literary adventure and discovery. It sometimes suffers from, overwriting and hyperbole. But these are minor flaws among the major pleasures of a superior book...