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headway (iou) and Ellis, (Henry) Havelock (sh)


headway (iou)



headway noun. E18.
[from HEAD noun + WAY noun.]
I.
Mining. A narrow passage or gallery connecting broad parallel passages. E18.
Architecture. Headroom; the clear height of a door, tunnel, etc. L18.
The interval of time between successive buses etc. on a route. L19.
II.
A ship's movement ahead or forward; rate of progress; gen. advance, progress (lit. & fig.). M18.
M. Scammell Solzhenitsyn was too na?ve and inexperienced to make much headway. Ships Monthly The ship was losing headway, the engines stopped.

Ellis, (Henry) Havelock (sh)




born Feb. 2, 1859, Croydon, Surrey, Eng.
died July 8, 1939, Washbrook, Suffolk

British sexuality researcher.

A medical doctor, he gave up his practice to devote himself to scientific and literary work. His major work, the seven-volume Studies in the Psychology of Sex (1897-1928), was a comprehensive, groundbreaking encyclopaedia of human sexual biology, behaviour, and attitudes whose topics included homosexuality, masturbation, and the physiology of sexual behaviour. Sale of the first volume led to a trial when the salesman was arrested on obscenity charges; the later volumes had to be published in the U.S. and were legally available only to the medical profession until 1935. Ellis viewed sexual activity as a natural expression of love and sought to dispel the widespread fear and ignorance surrounding it. He was also known as a champion of women's rights.


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