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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of northeast Massachusetts on the Merrimack River northwest of Boston. Developed by a group of industrialists in the 1820s, it was a major textile center into the first half of the 1900s.
- Percival,American astronomer. He founded the Lowell Observatory in Arizona (1894), where his studies of Mars led him to believe that the planet was inhabited.
- Abbott Lawrence,American educator and president (1909–1933) of Harvard University. He wrote Essays on Government (1889) and Conflicts of Principle (1932).
- James Russell,American editor, poet, and diplomat. He edited the Atlantic Monthly (1857–1861) and served as US minister to Spain (1877–1880) and Great Britain (1880–1885).
- Robert Traill Spence, Jr.,American poet whose works include Life Studies (1959) and The Dolphin (1973), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize.
- Amy Lawrence,American poet. A leader of the imagists, she wrote several volumes of poetry, including Sword Blades and Poppy Seed (1914).
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- proper noun A
surname , variant ofLovell . - proper noun A male
given name transferred from the surname.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun United States educator and president of Harvard University (1856-1943)
- noun United States astronomer whose studies of Mars led him to conclude that Mars was inhabited (1855-1916)
- noun United States poet (1917-1977)
- noun United States poet (1874-1925)
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From 1840 to 1849 the mill girls of Lowell edited the _Lowell Offering_.
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Performing at the lowell memorial Auditorium in Lowell, Massachusetts
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LOWELL - Howard and Sue Dutton of 700 Laurel Ridge Road, Lowell, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on April 5.
The Marietta Times 2009
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LOWELL | Town officials and ethanol entrepreneur Earl Powers said Friday he will cancel efforts to build a garbage-to-ethanol plant west of Lowell following an unfriendly reception by West Creek Township residents.
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* LOWELL TAKES AIM AT NCC TITLE: After finishing second the past three years, Lowell looks like the conference favorite.
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LOWELL - Howard and Sue Dutton of 700 Laurel Ridge Road, Lowell, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on April 5.
The Marietta Times 2009
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LOWELL - Nearly fiv5e consecutive miles of the Catamount Trail are now protected in Lowell.
RutlandHerald.com 2009
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That's laughable, given your obvious grammatical gifts. any place in lowell is a dive to eat in. from dunkin donuts to the cobblestone. they all hire the trash from lowell and these uneducated losers can't do anything except get stoned or sell drugs. i say level the whole city and leave it. no matter how much wax you put on crap it never will shine There are a lot of educated Americans that don't smoke dope, and take pride in what they do in Lowell.
Lowell Sun Forum 2008
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The Remonstrants would also add, that so far as they know and believe, "_there never can be a sufficient inducement to extend a railroad from Lowell westwardly and northwestwardly, to the Connecticut, so as to make it the great avenue to and from the interior, but that its termination must be at Lowell_" (italics our own), "and, consequently that it is to be
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 2, November, 1884 Various
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Joe from Lowell is such a good public teacher he spends the majority of his day on the internets playing bully and running interference for Obama.
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