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Word of the Day for Sunday, June 27, 2010zephyr \ZEF-er\, noun: 1. A gentle, mild breeze. And when my hand had had its fill of sport I used to seek The coolness of the shade and of the breeze, / The zephyr breathing from the chilly dales. / I sought the zephyr in the heat, / I waited for the zephyr, for its balm. Exactly as when the sun rises and drives away the shades of night, a light zephyr flits with the sun's rays over the face of the reviving earth. Zephyr, in ancient Greek zephyros, was the godly personification of the west wind. English usage of the term to designate a pleasant breeze is from the 1600s. | |||||||||
  Learn what bar code numbers mean in the wake of major cereal recallOn Friday, Kellogg's�recalled about 28 million boxes of cereal because consumers reported a unusual smell coming from the packaging that could potentially make people ill. In order to help identify the specific products involved, Kellogg's referred the public to the universal product code (UPC).� That's the official name for the pattern of black lines on... | |||||||||
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