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Mendes da Rocha, Paulo Archias

(Encyclopedia) Mendes da Rocha, Paulo Archias, 1928-2021, Brazilian architect, b. Vitoria, Brazil, Mackenzie Presbyterian Univ. (B.Arch., 1954).…

Fair Play

by Alicia Potter In State Fair, the 1933 movie musical, the mother aims to win the bake-off; the father, the hog competition; and as for the teens, they're looking for love. Sixty-five years…

Lorrie Fair

Lorrie FairBorn: Aug. 5, 1978Soccer at 20, she was the youngest player on the 1999 American team that won the inaugural women's World Cup; member of U.S. 2000 women's olympic team; helped…

fair

(Encyclopedia) fair, market exhibition at which producers, traders, and consumers meet either to barter or to buy and sell goods and services. Before the development of transportation and marketing,…

Brewer's: Cherry Fairs

Now called teagardens. Nothing to do with cherries; it is cheery fairs —i.e. gay or recreation fairs. A “cheering” is a merrymaking. Halliwell tells us that “Cherry (or rather chery) fairs…

fair trade

(Encyclopedia) fair trade, a trading arrangement intended to provide more equitable international trade by creating better conditions for disadvantaged or marginalized producers of goods. Fair trade…

The Fair Singer

The Fair Singer To make a final conquest of all me, Love did compose so sweet an Enemy, In whom both Beauties to my death agree, Joyning themselves in fatal Harmony; That while she with her…

Brewer's: Fair

(The). Charles IV., King of France, le Bel (1294, 1322-1328). Philippe IV. of France, le Bel (1268, 1285-1314). Fair as Lady Done. A great Cheshire family that has long occupied a…

Brewer's: Fairing

(A). A present from a fair. The ing is a patronymic = a descendant of, come from, belonging to. “Fairings come thus plentifully in.” Shakespeare: Love's Labour's Lost, v. 2. Source:…