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How⋅ard

[hou-erd]
–noun
1. Catherine, c1520–42, fifth wife of Henry VIII.
2. Sir Ebenezer, 1850–1928, English town planner.
3. Henry. Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of.
4. John Winston, born 1939, prime minister of Australia since 1996.
5. Leslie (Leslie Stainer), 1893–1943, English actor.
6. Roy Wilson, 1883–1964, U.S. editor and newspaper publisher.
7. Sidney (Coe) [koh] , 1891–1939, U.S. playwright and short-story writer.
8. a male given name: from a Germanic word meaning “brave heart.”
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Howard 
proper name, from O.Fr. Huard, from a Gmc. source similar to O.H.G. *Hugihard "heart-brave," or *Hoh-weard, lit. "high defender; chief guardian." Also probably in some cases a confusion with cognate O.N. Haward, and also with unrelated Hayward. In some rare cases from O.E. eowu hierde "ewe herd."
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Roy Wilson Howard

American journalist and editor who was codirector of the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain from 1925, when the Scripps-Howard name replaced the original designation, Scripps-McRae. Howard directed Scripps-Howard as the surviving partner after the death in 1938 of Robert Scripps. By that time, partly owing to the Great Depression, the number of Scripps-Howard newspapers had been reduced from 25 to 20

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