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Hess

noun
1.
English pianist (1890-1965).  Synonym: Dame Myra Hess.
2.
Swiss physiologist noted for studies of the brain (1881-1973).  Synonyms: Walter Hess, Walter Rudolf Hess.
3.
Nazi leader who in 1941 flew a solo flight to Scotland in an apparent attempt to negotiate a peace treaty with Great Britain but was imprisoned for life (1894-1987).  Synonyms: Rudolf Hess, Walther Richard Rudolf Hess.
4.
United States physicist (born in Austria) who was a discoverer of cosmic radiation (1883-1964).  Synonyms: Victor Franz Hess, Victor Hess.



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... Show and Tell Jacqueline Hess (Moderator) Elli Mylonas, Perseus Project Discussion Eric M. Calaluca, Patrologia Latina Database Carl Fleischhauer and Ricky Erway, American Memory Discussion Dorothy Twohig, The Papers of George Washington ...
— LOC WORKSHOP ON ELECTRONIC TEXTS • James Daly

... winter's toiling and moiling, and thousands of dollars put into the ground, haven't produced an ounce of gold above that claim or below No. 5. I tell you it's an awful gamble. Hunter Creek, Hoosier, Bear, Big Minook, I You, Quail, Alder, Mike Hess, Little Nell—the whole blessed country, rivers, creeks, pups, and all, staked for a radius of forty miles just because there's gold here, ...
— The Magnetic North • Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond)

... cordiality for the artist, and so employed others on the plea, not wholly tenable, that Overbeck was better in oil than in fresco. Thus the large acreage of wall surfaces dedicated to Christian Art in the churches of Munich and the Cathedral of Spires fell into the hands of Cornelius, Hess, and Schraudolph. It is impossible not to regret that this grand sphere was thus closed to the artist who of all others had most of beauty to reveal. Yet the sensitive painter might have encountered much to disturb his ...
— Overbeck • J. Beavington Atkinson

... the existence of a Jewish nationality, the national emancipation dreamed by Salvador, Hess, and Luzzatto, considered a heresy by the orthodox and a dangerous theory by the liberals, had at last found its prophet. In Smolenskin's enthusiastic formulation of it, the ideal was carried to the masses in Russia and Galicia, superseding the mystical ...
— The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) • Nahum Slouschz

... enmity, for which they felt grateful. He wished the people to understand that he was at liberty to speak to them privately, and that he had a fair opportunity to hear any complaints, if there were any to be made. Mr. Hess allowed him to go round, placing full confidence in him, and he felt satisfied that if there had been anything wrong he should have heard of it. It had been his opinion all along that the Military, in sending these exiles down there, ...
— The War in South Africa - Its Cause and Conduct • Arthur Conan Doyle


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