Word: virgo
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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...
...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...
...British public knows with absolute certainty that Miss Savidge is an innocent young woman. She has submitted herself to the scrutiny of the person from whom she had most to fear, the Medical Examiner of Scotland Yard, and has been certified to be a "virgo intacta"-fact duly chronicled by the whole British press...