Powell: Meaning and Definition of

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1. 1908–72, U.S. clergyman, politician, and civil-rights leader: congressman 1945–67, 1969–71.
2. born 1905, English author.
3. 1903–69, English physicist: Nobel prize 1950.
4. born 1937, U.S. general.
5. 1834–1902, U.S. geologist and ethnologist.
6. born 1907, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1972–87.