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101Brief — (br[=e]f), a. [OE. bref, F. brief, bref, fr. L. brevis; akin to Gr. brachy s short, and perh. to Skr. barh to tear. Cf. {Breve}.] 1. Short in duration. [1913 Webster] How brief the life of man. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Concise; terse; succinct.… …
102In brief — Brief Brief (br[=e]f), a. [OE. bref, F. brief, bref, fr. L. brevis; akin to Gr. brachy s short, and perh. to Skr. barh to tear. Cf. {Breve}.] 1. Short in duration. [1913 Webster] How brief the life of man. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Concise; terse;… …
103Happy Days (play) — Happy Days is a play in two acts, written in English, by Samuel Beckett. He began the play on 8th October 1960 [Knowlson, J., Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett (London: Bloomsbury, 1996), p 475] and it was completed on 14th May 1961.… …
104Spring and Autumn Annals — Chunqiu redirects here. For the period in Eastern Zhou, see Spring and Autumn Period. Spring and Autumn Annals Chinese 春 秋 …
105Herbie Popnecker — Herbie Popnecker, a parody of a superhero, first appeared in Forbidden Worlds #73 in December 1958, published by ACG, American Comics Group. It was the introduction of the antithesis of a hero short, fat, young but this unlikely hero was one of… …
106Manolis Anagnostakis — (10 March 1925 – 23 June 2005) was a Greek poet and critic at the forefront of the Marxist and existentialist poetry movements arising during and after the Greek Civil War in the late 1940s. Anagnostakis was a leader amongst his contemporaries… …
107Seaside (software) — Infobox Software name = Seaside caption = Screenshot of a web application in development mode collapsible = yes developer = [http://www.seaside.st/community/contributors The Seaside Team] latest release version = 2.8 latest release date = release …
108Verga, Giovanni — born Sept. 2, 1840, Catania, Sicily died Jan. 27, 1922, Catania Italian writer, the most important of the verismo (realist) school of novelists. Born to a family of landowners, Verga left Sicily for the mainland, where he remained until 1893.… …
109Wikipedia:Reference desk/Miscellaneous — The Wikipedia Reference Desk covering the topic of miscellaneous. Miscellaneous #eee #f5f5f5 #eee #aaa #aaa #aaa #00f #36b #000 #00f miscellaneous Wikipedia …
110brief — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. short, succinct, terse; quick, fleeting. n. summary, argument. v. t. instruct. See information, lawsuit, shortness. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Short in time] Syn. short, fleeting, concise; see… …
