Todays Word

 

heliotropic

PRONUNCIATION:

(hee-lee-uh-TROP-ik, -TROH-pik) 

MEANING:

adjective: Turning toward the sun or the light.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Greek helio- (sun) + -tropic (turning). Earliest documented use: 1875.

USAGE:

“Architects have toyed with the idea of heliotropic mirrors that pick up sunlight at the top of tall buildings and shine it back down to street level, bathing the pavement in natural sunlight.”
Robert Nelson; Ideas Travelling at the Speed of Light; The Age (Melbourne, Australia); Apr 3, 2013.

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Todays Thought

The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second. 

-John Steinbeck, novelist, Nobel laureate (27 Feb 1902-1968)

Todays Thought

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. 

-Victor Hugo, novelist and dramatist (26 Feb 1802-1885)