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Word of the Day for Monday, June 6, 2011pecksniffian \pek-SNIF-ee-uhn\, adjective: Hypocritically and smugly affecting benevolence or high moral principles. With such departing words, did this strong minded female paralyze the Pecksniffian energies; and so she swept out of the room, and out of the house, attended her daughters, who, as with one accord, elevated their three noses in the air, and joined in a contemptuous titter. The men who do things in the world, the men worthy of admiration and imitation, are men constitutionally incapable of any such pecksniffian stupidity. Pecksniffian is named after Seth Pecksniff, a character in "Martin Chuzzlewit, a novel" (1843), by Charles Dickens. | |||||||||
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  Will handwriting survive in the digital era? Learn the provocative results of a new studyIt didn't start with a pen, but a reed with a brush at the tip, and it didn't start with ink, but a mixture of soot, water and vegetable gum. There definitely was a piece of papyrus. Around 2400 BC, Egyptian culture bestowed upon the world a great gift: the ability to write on paper. From... | |||||||||
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