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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the researches back of the classification, the following points are indicated: our galaxy is not a typical galaxy, a spiral or star cloud, but rather should be compared with clouds of galaxies. It is comparable in dimensions and population with the Coma-Virgo Super-Galaxy, which contains two or three hundred individual galaxies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHAPLEY CLASSIFIES ALL MATERIAL BODIES IN SEVENTEEN GROUPS | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...groups of super-galaxies are coming to light in the comprehensive survey of external systems, one of the most conspicuous cases being a pair of super-galaxies in Coma-Virgo at a distance of about one hundred and fifty million light years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHAPLEY CLASSIFIES ALL MATERIAL BODIES IN SEVENTEEN GROUPS | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...lobbies, carried on by employes of church organizations and of fanatic pacifists' machines which do not make plain the sources of their funds or prove their freedom from relationship with radical alien internationals or with foreign inspired propaganda intended to keep the U. S. in various states of coma in its various relations and defenses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Epic Lobby | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...Near "Mile 133" on the Algoma Central Canadian Railway, last week, virile Baggageman Robert Burns dealt in pioneer fashion with a she-wolf. Seizing the beast between neck and shoulders he strangled her into a coma, carried her home securely tied with baggage car twine to Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Privy Seal Jim | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

...Manhattan last week, Mrs. Ruth Greenberg was found in a coma. Nurses, undressing her at a hospital, removed three dresses, four suits of flannel underwear, 15 pairs of thick stockings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jun. 24, 1929 | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

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