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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



... monument of this agitation in which Manchester took such prominent part. As the city has grown in wealth, so has its architectural appearance improved; its school-and college-buildings are very fine, particularly Owens College, munificently endowed by a leading merchant. The Manchester Cathedral is an ancient building overlooking the Irwell which has had to be renewed in so many parts that it has a comparatively modern aspect. Other English cathedrals are more imposing, but this, "the ould paroch church" ...
— England, Picturesque and Descriptive - A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel • Joel Cook



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