Word: arrays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Narrow Margin proves what purists have been shouting for a long time--movies should move more and talk less. It also proves that it doesn't take technicolor, a million dollars, and an array of extras to make a picture that will sell. It only takes a good director and a smart editor...
...which can be shifted around among 40 different slots. Theseus himself has only a mouse-shaped wooden body, three small wheels and whiskers of copper wire. Inside him is nothing but a bar-magnet. His brains are outside him, under the floor of the labyrinth. They are a complicated array of relays...
Contemporary with the European Renaissance in art, the Ming (or "Radiant") era was one in which craftsmanship and art were synonymous. It produced a dazzling array of boldly colored and designed textiles, in addition to the fine lacquer work, painting and ceramics for which the period is best known...
...method was to break the language down into six main classes (abstract relations, space, matter, intellect, volition, affections). Then under each class he listed the pertinent one-word topics, following these with a rich array of synonyms, colloquialisms and comparisons. The topic courage, for instance, involved for him everything from audacity to spunk, Perseus to gamecock, to "beard the lion in his den." Roget also included appropriate quotations: e.g., "Every dog is a lion at home" . . . "The valiant never taste of death but once...
Here Today . . . Standard atlases do not even agree on heights of some of the Alpine peaks. Some governments like to pad their population figures; some cities boast a bewildering array of spellings-e.g., Jebeil, Jubeil, Jebail, Jubayl, Jbail Djebail, Djoubeil. In Russia, a city's name is apt to change with the size of its population; in China, it can change with the seasonal movement of a district capital (e.g., Shanmulung officially becomes Lungchwan in the winter; Changfengkai becomes Lungchwan in the summer). Islands present a special problem: the South Pacific's volcanic Fonuafoo, for instance, emerged...