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Word: dowst (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most interesting bout of the evening will probably be the three-rounder between fleet, vicious, one-armed Tommy Rodgers and Somerby Dowst. Rodgers' jarring, flailing right hand earned him a unanimous decision yesterday from John Lord...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Boxers Battle For University Crown In Tournament Today | 3/27/1947 | See Source »

...come in. Somerby R. Dowst '46 of Walker House and Somerville, marched briskly up the slippery (oh they were always slippery) steps of 14 Plympton Street. He said he had it, and yea, we believed him. "Give a look," he says, so we looked Here's the dope. He underlined things, sort of skipping every few words, and the way he figures Skip's in trouble...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Corkin Lingers in Danger As Harvard Sleuths Ponder | 2/2/1943 | See Source »

...think that's silly. All Flip said was that he had a cute babe with him, and that's the straight stuff. Dowst got a first sentence that made sense, and then dissolved into gibberish. There's still time. Lot's beat those stuck-up Boston papers. Let's go to press...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Corkin Lingers in Danger As Harvard Sleuths Ponder | 2/2/1943 | See Source »

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