Word: hegira
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...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...
...contest ever started. After switching from train to bus on their journey, the Chasemen found that vehicle unable to make the high hill which runs up to the Academy. The squad was forced to leave the bus, and all the team's equipment was carried up the hill. This hegira delayed the start of the game half an hour...
...wanderings, and Professor Baker's activities, including the then-famed course, English 47, abolished. Baker, exiled by the Brahmin purists, found a more appreciative reception at New Haven, settled there, and brought the Yale drama school to the ranking spot in college theatrical circles it now holds. After the hegira the Corporation was content to allow Harvard to lag behind every leading college in the land, completely devoid of University support of play writing and play producing...