Word: lowan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, Quentin Romero, 196 pound pugilistic champ of Chile, fell before the bruising, battering attack of Floyd Johnson, 199 pound lowan. Romero, his face a bloody smear, fell in the seventh round, .lay prone while the timer tailed off: ten seconds. Whether he was really "out" or whether he could not understand the Anglo-Saxon numerals as shouted by the referee are questions which were afterwards debated...
...President and started for home. He had just reached there when Judge Kenyon of Iowa arrived in Washington, also on a summons. Judge Kenyon had all the qualifications: A judge, well known (as a former Senator), a progressive (the pet candidate for President of Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart, insurgent lowan). Judge Kenyon was offered the place. He took a day to consider, conferring with his erstwhile companions in the Senate. He said next...
...producers of auricular cauliflowers opened another mill last week. When it closed down for the night, Jack Renault, French Canadian heavyweight, had knocked out Floyd Johnson, lowan. Fifteen rounds were required for the operation. The 15 sealed forever Johnson's claims to the heavyweight championship; but they showed him to be one of the most unflinching fighters that ever wore a glove; he will always be somebody's sparring partner. Renault showed considerable skill but no vestige (in either hand) of the crushing cannon ball which alone can dent the Dempsey crown...
...existence scattered over the country from Los Angeles to Cambridge. They are probably more useful as educational institutions than as news -distributing agencies, for even the long established dailies of Yale, Harvard and Princeton are replete with errors and journalistic faux pas. Among the 31 is the Daily lowan of Iowa University, and that paper, it was announced, has become a member of the Associated Press...
...College of Commerce will manage business affairs. It will be published from its own plant, equipped with three linotype machines and a press that will print " from the roll " and turn out folded and complete 6,000 papers an hour. Besides general news, cartoons and " cuts" or pictures, the lowan will have a Society column...