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Owens   /ˈoʊənz/   Listen
Owens

noun
1.
United States athlete and Black American whose success in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin outraged Hitler (1913-1980).  Synonyms: James Cleveland Owens, Jesse Owens.






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"Owens" Quotes from Famous Books



... extensively advertised. In Nature, January 9, 1892, is an account of a Percheron horse whose mane measured 13 feet and whose tail measured almost ten feet, probably the greatest example of excessive mane development on record. Figure 88 represents Miss Owens, an exhibitionist, whose hair measured eight feet three inches. In Leslie's Weekly, January 2, 1896, there is a portrait of an old negress named Nancy Garrison whose woolly hair ...
— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould



Words linked to "Owens" :   athlete, Jesse Owens, James Cleveland Owens, jock



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