Sparseness
91United States Army — Wappen des Department of the Army Aufstellung 1789 …
92Atlas Mountains — a mountain range in NW Africa, extending through Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. Highest peak, Mt. Tizi, 14,764 ft. (4500 m). * * * Mountain system, northwestern Africa. It extends some 1,200 mi (2,000 km) from the Moroccan port of Agadir in the… …
93doo-wop — /dooh wop /, n. Popular Music. a style of small group vocal harmonizing, commercialized as a type of so called street singing in the 1950s, in which words and nonsense syllables are chanted in rhythmic harmony to support the stylized melody of… …
94motion picture — motion picture, adj. 1. a sequence of consecutive pictures of objects photographed in motion by a specially designed camera (motion picture camera) and thrown on a screen by a projector (motion picture projector) in such rapid succession as to… …
95sparse — sparsely, adv. sparseness, sparsity /spahr si tee/, n. /spahrs/, adj., sparser, sparsest. 1. thinly scattered or distributed: a sparse population. 2. not thick or dense; thin: sparse hair. 3. scanty; meager. [1715 25; < L spa …
96Oligocene Epoch — Major division of the Tertiary Period, from с 33. 7 to 23.8 million years ago. It follows the Eocene Epoch and precedes the Miocene Epoch. The term (from the Greek for few recent forms ) refers to the small number of modern animals that… …
97children's literature — Body of written works produced to entertain or instruct young people. The genre encompasses a wide range of works, including acknowledged classics of world literature, picture books and easy to read stories, and fairy tales, lullabies, fables,… …
98Beckett, Samuel — ▪ Irish author Introduction in full Samuel Barclay Beckett born April 13?, 1906, Foxrock, County Dublin, Ire. died Dec. 22, 1989, Paris, France author, critic, and playwright, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. He wrote in both… …
99Mufaḍḍalīyāt, Al- — ▪ Arabic anthology Arabic“The Collection of al Mufaḍḍal” an anthology of ancient Arabic poems, compiled by al Mufaḍḍal ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaʿlah between 762 and 784. It is of the highest importance as a record of the thought and poetic art of …
100O'Neill, Eugene — ▪ American dramatist Introduction in full Eugene Gladstone O Neill born Oct. 16, 1888, New York, N.Y., U.S. died Nov. 27, 1953, Boston, Mass. foremost American dramatist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936. His… …
