Lowell
Ab·bott Lawrence [ab-uht], /ˈæb ət/, 1856–1943, political scientist and educator: president of Harvard University 1909–33.
his sister, Amy, 1874–1925, U.S. poet and critic.
James Russell, 1819–91, U.S. poet, essayist, and diplomat.
Percival, 1855–1916, U.S. astronomer and author (brother of Abbott Lawrence Lowell and Amy Lowell).
Robert, 1917–77, U.S. poet.
a city in NE Massachusetts, on the Merrimack River.
a male given name: from a Germanic word meaning “little wolf.”
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Nevertheless, several solvers, like Emily Boyajian of Minneapolis, Minnesota, explicitly found the probability distribution that Lowell approximated computationally.
Can You Draft A Riddler Fantasy Football Dream Team? | Zach Wissner-Gross | August 27, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightLowell ran a total of 4 million simulations, dividing each of the two hops into 2,000 uniformly distributed angles.
Can You Draft A Riddler Fantasy Football Dream Team? | Zach Wissner-Gross | August 27, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightLowell had searched for what he called Planet X until he died in 1916.
The definition of planet is still a sore point – especially among Pluto fans | Lisa Grossman | August 24, 2021 | Science NewsIn February, a judge granted a protective order for women incarcerated at Lowell and other Florida facilities who alleged that they were subjected to “unconstitutional isolation practices” in retaliation for outspokenness about prison conditions.
Inhumane system of incarceration in U.S. poses special danger to women | Jessica Adler | June 16, 2021 | Washington PostA University of Massachusetts at Lowell poll published last week showed Cunningham up six points over Tillis, and he was closing in on 50 percent of support for all voters in North Carolina.
A sexting scandal in the North Carolina Senate race was the last thing Democrats need | Amber Phillips | October 5, 2020 | Washington Post
He could recite reams of Frost, Dickinson, Whitman, and Lowell, and he did so while I stood there, amazed.
Robert Lowell called him the most important Irish poet since William Butler Yeats.
Seamus Heaney, 1939-2013: Accessible, Yes, and Beautiful | Jimmy So | August 30, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTLowell worried that he had whittled away his talent in the pursuit of “some ironic integrity.”
A Plot Against Living: J.F. Powers’s ‘Suitable Accommodations’ | D. G. Myers | August 20, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTCast: Geoff Stults, Chris Lowell, Parker Young, Keith David, Angelique Cabral.
Fall-Winter TV Preview: Snap Judgments of 2013–14’s New Shows | Jace Lacob, Kevin Fallon | July 16, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTWilde set sail from Liverpool with letters of introduction from James Russell Lowell and Edward Burne-Jones.
A Lowell factory-girl would consider this entirely out of character, and a New-York milliner would be shocked at the idea of it.
Glances at Europe | Horace GreeleyMoreover, Mr. Lowell has failed to discover any traces of clouds upon the surface of the planet.
Outlines of the Earth's History | Nathaniel Southgate ShalerLowell straightened up suddenly, a tingle of apprehension running through him.
Mystery Ranch | Arthur ChapmanThe sheriff was out, but Lowell left the necessary information as to the location of the automobile and the body.
Mystery Ranch | Arthur ChapmanLowell was frankly worried as he sped away from the agency with Plenty Buffalo and the interpreter.
Mystery Ranch | Arthur Chapman
British Dictionary definitions for Lowell
/ (ˈləʊəl) /
Amy (Lawrence). 1874–1925, US imagist poet and critic
James Russell. 1819–91, US poet, essayist, and diplomat, noted for his series of poems in Yankee dialect, Biglow Papers (1848; 1867)
Robert (Traill Spence). 1917–77, US poet. His volumes of verse include Lord Weary's Castle (1946), Life Studies (1959), For the Union Dead (1964), and a book of free translations of European poems, Imitations (1961)
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