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Word of the Day for Saturday, April 30, 2011effloresce \EF-luh-res\, verb: 1. To burst into bloom; blossom. Do I, from scholar, effloresce into literary man, author by profession? Her leaves do not expand, or her flower-buds effloresce, unless sure of a quantum suff of sunshine. Effloresce combines the Latin roots ex-, "out of", and florescere, "to blossom." | |||||||||
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Is this goodbye to the typewriter? Learn the love story that helped create the typewriterTypewriter enthusiasts around the globe are probably feeling a bit blue this week after hearing that Godrej and Boyce, one of the world's last operational typewriter factories located in Mumbai, India, closed its doors for the last time after an impressive one-hundred-and-fourteen year run. Once regarded as an indispensable device for any writer, the typewriter... | |||||||||
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