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Word of the Day for Tuesday, February 15, 2011uxorious \uk-SOR-ee-us; ug-ZOR-\, adjective: Excessively fond of or submissive to a wife. It is batty to suppose that the most uxorious of husbands will stop his wife's excessive shopping if an excessive shopper she has always been. Flagler seems to have been an uxorious, domestic man, who liked the comfort and companionship of a wife at his side. Fuller is as uxorious a poet as they come: hiatuses in the couple's mutual understanding are overcome with such rapidity as to be hardly worth mentioning in the first place ("How easy, this ability / To lose whatever we possess / By ceasing to believe that we / Deserve such brilliant success"). Uxorious is from Latin uxorius, from uxor, wife. | |||||||||
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  The book no one can read: Why can't anyone decipher this mysterious manuscript?Inside the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University is the Voynich manuscript: a book that has come to be known as "the world's most mysterious manuscript." Since a team of scientists has recently determined the age of the Voynich (pronounced Voy-nitch) manuscript, we relish the opportunity to discuss this enigma as well... | |||||||||
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