Word: heath
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Mrs. George Anthony Reginald Williams, 43, the former Lady (Sophie) Mary Heath, famed flier (first woman commercial pilot, first woman to loop the loop, first woman to fly solo London-Cape-town) ; of a broken head after a fall down the steps of a double-deck bus; in London...
...picture of the land through Hardy's words, but you build up a picture of your own with your mental eye. Thus, when he describes the opening scene: "A Saturday afternoon in November was approaching the time of twilight, and the vast tract of unenclosed wild known as Egdon Heath embrowned itself moment by moment. Overhead the hollow stretch of whitish cloud shutting out the sky was as a tent which had the whole heath for its floor," the Vagabond gets one definite mental picture, while you may get an entirely different impression. Vag's mental picture of tents...
...least one man Vag knows has made a hobby of finding out just what the correct picture is--the view novelists like Hardy actually saw as they wrote. This man has tramped around a lot and taken many colored photographs of out-of-the-way places like Egdon Heath and Stevenson's favorite hang-outs. Pictures like his can no doubt help a lot to clear up the hazy perspective of fellows like...
Genial Banker Jones, at home on his Texas heath, wasted no time in laying this canard: "I have been introduced as a conservative. I am a liberal." Thereupon, taking his usual line that U. S. banks would have to loosen up "or else," he said: "We should all remember that it is the borrower who makes the mare go. He buys and hires and builds. He sometimes makes mistakes, but even so, he should still be encouraged...
Clark Wright Heath '22, who will be the physician graduated from the Harvard Medical School in 1926. He has been associated with the Mass. General Hospital and the Thorndike Laboratory of the Boston City Hospital and has been both an assistant and instructor at the Medical School...