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Spingarn

American  
[spin-gahrn] / ˈspɪn gɑrn /

noun

  1. Joel Elias, 1875–1939, U.S. literary critic, publisher, and editor.


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Spingarn built and planted the rock wall in the 1970s.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 9, 2023

“All of these things take time to develop,” said Mr. Spingarn of Melius Research.

From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2022

By the time Young Contee was set to graduate from Spingarn, the traditional high school, he and the police department were eyeing and embracing each other.

From Washington Times • Sep. 27, 2021

Fenner said her son graduated from now -closed Spingarn High School and worked construction jobs, most recently at a building on the campus of Howard University.

From Washington Post • Aug. 12, 2019

He was then working at Howard University as a research librarian in the Moorland- Spingarn Research Center, one of the largest collections of Africana in the world.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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