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Hess   /hɛs/   Listen
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



... 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)

... 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

... 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

... '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

... 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



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