fountainhead

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That’s when a theater kid from Compton, Calif., flew some 3,000 miles from home to begin his freshman year at “The Mecca,” what Howard students call the historically Black fountainhead of talent.

From Washington Post • May 11, 2022

Yet bordering countries, as well as some in the wider region, fear a Taliban-led state could pose a potent threat — as an exporter of extremism, or a fountainhead of refugee flight, or both.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2021

In one of the federal judiciary’s longest and most prolific careers, Judge Keith, a Democrat, was a fountainhead of regional rulings with national implications.

From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2019

It would mean acknowledging that Aryans or their Vedic culture were not the singular fountainhead of Indian civilisation and that its earliest sources lay elsewhere.

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2018

I think that nowhere is the black continent’s wealth and the natural beauty of its people richer than in Ghana, which is so proudly the very fountainhead of Pan-Africanism.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey