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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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"Hess" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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

... Jake Hess, the Republican "Boss" of the Twenty-first District, evidently eyed Roosevelt with some suspicion, for the newcomer belonged to a class which Jake did not desire to see largely represented in the business of "practical politics," and so ...
— Theodore Roosevelt; An Intimate Biography, • William Roscoe Thayer

... designed for the protection of powder-magazines or store buildings placed in very exposed situations. Zenger's system is identical with that of Melsens, and has been extensively tried by the Austrian military authorities, and Colonel Hess has reported upon the absolute safety of ...
— Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise • P. Gerald Sanford

... of the modern family. Social reformers have used the evolutionary theory as a formula to justify attacks upon the family as an institution and to support the most varied proposals for its reconstruction. Books like Ellen Key's Love and Marriage and Meisel-Hess, The Sexual Crisis are not scientific studies of the family but rather social political philippics directed against marriage and ...
— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park

... 'ave jubilee port, a rare old sherry, and whisky. Now what shall we make it? You, being like myself, a Englishman in this 'ere land of eagles, spread and otherwise, suppose we make it a B and a Hess?" ...
— The Definite Object - A Romance of New York • Jeffery Farnol

... and dark brown stockings may be worn on the feet. Bracelets, earrings, chains, beads, quills, and brooches may be used as ornaments. The hands, arms, and face should be stained. To color the skin get a stick of Hess Grease Paint No. 17. Rub a little vaseline into the skin to be tinted. Then rub a portion of the paint on the palm of the left hand and with the fingers of the right hand transfer it evenly to the skin surface until the ...
— Christmas Entertainments • Alice Maude Kellogg

... music. They had come from all over Europe to take part in the festival. Nearly half of the violins were concert-masters, and many of them famous soloists, as Carl Halir, Henri Petri, Jeno Hubay, Willy Hess, Gustav Hollaender, Gabrielle Wietrowitz, Marie ...
— Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday • Henry C. Lahee



Words linked to "Hess" :   pianist, German Nazi, physicist, piano player, physiologist, nazi



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