Word: diurnally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slow progressive shift of the axis about which the earth rotates over a period of months and years has been known for a long time, explained Professor Stetson, but that there should exist such a diurnal effect depending upon the altitude of the moon in the sky was not known until the results of the present investigation were found. From the results of other investigations in progress at the Astronomical Laboratory last year, Professor Stetson is led to believe that the moon might cause a deviation in the direction of gravity as it passed over the meridian of the observer...
Foot Wrenched. Pain sharpened the lines of His Holiness' usually serene and always amiable face last week. Descending from the papal automobile for his diurnal promenade in the Vatican gardens he wrenched his right foot. After a day in his private quarters he forced himself to give his usual audiences in the throne room. The pain continued. So public, but not private, audiences have been suspended for the present. Before his election to the Papacy he was a doughty mountain climber. Age, not immuration, is responsible for his present frailty. Next May His Holiness will be 72 years...
...necessary embonpoint. The buzz-saw has ceased to hack at the disheveled hair of the fainted heroine, and the villain, with a furious gesture, has gone to meet his Maker. Gone are the thrillers and the tragedies and mysteries that held audiences tense for every moment of their diurnal span. Gone indeed, but the tradition seems to linger...
...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...
...make pleasure diurnal...