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Saturday, October 29, 2005

"For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it." ~ Ivan Panin (Russian mathematician1855-1942)

shipshape
Pronunciation: "ship-'shAp, 'ship-"
Function: adjective
Etymology: short for earlier shipshapen, from ship + shapen, archaic past participle of shape
: TRIM, TIDY

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