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Word: plowboys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General Electric Co. and Chairman of Radio Corp. of America. Out on the farm in Van Hornesville, N. Y., where he was born, and where he now raises prize cattle, rustics know Mr. Young as a tall, deliberate, loosely built man of 54 who was once a lazy plowboy.* Gaffers recall how his father had to borrow the $1,000 which helped Owen to an education, world potency, historic fame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Germany Can Pay! | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...Legend tells that hot, sweating Plowboy Young was so impressed one summer day by the cool nonchalance of attorneys arguing in the county court house that he instantly resolved to turn from clods and dirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Germany Can Pay! | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

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