Word: diurnally
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...visit leafy little hideaways in St. John's Wood. There George IV and Napoleon III kept their well-hidden mistresses; beauteous Lily Langtry waited for Edward VII at 20 Wellington Road; many less famous women lived in well-kept seclusion with nothing to do but listen for the diurnal rumble of their lovers' carriage wheels as their carriages turned into the gravel drives. When Novelist George Eliot, famed for her indifference to marriage vows, went to live there, the Countess of Cork snapped: "Of course, poor dear. Where else could...
Like the evening star, Advocate members returned last evening and restored their door to its diurnal splendor...
...Kleitman, an expert on human body temperature who once lived in a cave to prove that habits can change body heat's diurnal rhythm (TIME, July 18, 1938), concludes: "On the basis of occasional data ... on many subjects . . . and through an analysis of multiple readings on two ... it appears that attending motion picture shows . . . is by no means relaxation in the physiological sense. . . . It remains to be seen whether the collective change in the body temperature of a preview audience can be used to predict the box-office success of a film...
...styles, parodyed Fielding, the Bible, Chaucer. That same year The Barnes published, privately and anonymously, her self-illustrated Ladies Almanack ("showing their Signs and their tides; their Moons and their Changes; the Seasons as it is with them; their Eclipses and Equinoxes; as well as a full Record of diurnal and nocturnal Distempers"). Says The Barnes: "By tramping the Paris streets I sold about 500 copies to bookstores and friends. Ten copies shipped to the U.S. were banned. The remainder are in France, in the hands of the Nazis...
Fabulous was the Old Farmer's success in predicting diurnal or hebdomadal weather a year in advance. Legend has it that the publisher, pressed by a typesetter for a July 13 forecast, replied hastily: "Anything, anything." The impish employe set up "Rain, Hail and Snow." On July 13, sure enough, it rained, hailed and snowed.* A Providence, R. I. clerk kept count of the Old Farmer's forecast for 1900. It was 33% correct- 2% below the U. S. Weather Bureau's day-ahead record...