Word: diurnally
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...beams reflect from a mirror. Estimates place the Layer at 50 to 250 mi. from Earth's surface and picture it as roughly spherical.* At night the Layer shrinks comparatively close to Earth; by day, as the Sun puts in its effect, it recedes. But this theory of diurnal, tide-like pulsation has not explained all radio reactions against the Kennelly-Heaviside Layer. A Navy physicist Polar-yearing at Fairbanks, Alaska, last week offered a new explanation...
...scene, the fire was not permitted to assume serious proportions. Once out there arose two schools of thought concerning the origins of the Great Fire. One, headed by Pete Hartwell, of the night watch, doggedly maintained that there was no fire at 9 o'clock, when he made his diurnal round. His feeling about the matter was that a heated salamander in a fit of pique had started the whole business. Mr. Phillips, one of Mr. Hartwell's colleagues, contended that it could have been nothing else than an irresponsible gas saw, which had somehow broken loose. Mr. Apted...
...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...