Word: hess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Myra Hess to Play...
Taken aback, Judge Sullivan postponed sentencing the defendants, ordered a thoroughgoing psychiatric examination for Oscar Hartzell. "Your Honor," pleaded exhausted Defense Counsel Edward J. Hess, "if Hartzell is nutty, so are all the rest of them...
...Royal Air Force; Marshal of the Royal Air Force Hugh Montague ("Boom") Trenchard, Baron Trenchard of Wolfeton, London Police Commissioner from 1931 to 1935, to be a viscount; Miss Jackson, private secretary to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's wife, Lucy, to be an officer. Pianist Myra Hess to be a Commander, oldtime Suffragette Christabel Pankhurst to be a Dame Commander, of the Order of the British Empire...
...instrument gradually became more electrified or ionized. Later experimenters discovered that thick screens of lead or water shut out some of the mysterious ionizing agent, but not all. Lord Rutherford thought it might be something in the atmosphere near the ground. Göckel of Switzerland, Hess of Vienna and Kolhorster of Potsdam made balloon flights up to five miles, found the radiation seven times stronger than at the earth's surface. Thus the rays were seen to be coming in from the cosmos beyond Earth's blanket of air. Calculation revealed them as more penetrating than...
...short order a jury of twelve, with two alternates, was chosen, largely because none of them had ever heard of the master of the Golden Hind. One venireman was passed over because he lived in Chicago's Drake Hotel. Defense Counsel Edward J. Hess, once an assistant U. S. attorney and an authority on postal law, set out to save those of his twoscore clients whom he could. It was soon clear that he did not hope to save them all. Passing up Hartzell and Yant, he pointed at some of the others, pleaded: "Whatever may be the truth...