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...neither toiled nor did they sweat. In the cities the streets were deserted, except for a privileged few. Street cars did not run, shops were closed, automobiles were garaged. From Constantinople at the Golden Horn, along the length of the Bosporus, flanked by its minarets and white domes, diurnal scene of a thousand scurrying ships, all was silent as the graveyard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Census | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

...make pleasure diurnal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...scrambled diurnal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Feb. 23, 1925 | 2/23/1925 | See Source »

...Edit" a unscrambled diurnal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West of Tipperary | 2/23/1925 | See Source »

...rides on the trolley and subway beside you. He works at the next desk, exercises at the next machine, pours tea at any table, walks, talks, transacts, marries, yet is never detected unless somehow cut off, Antaeus-like, from the source of vitality. Cretins must continue their diurnal gland reinforcement or sink back to their deformed, subconscious state by slow, tragic degrees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cretins* | 9/29/1924 | See Source »

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