Word: virgo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the Sign of the Ram, the Bull, the Twins, the Crab and the Lion John Farmer toils and sweats through spring and summer from dawn to dusk. But under Virgo, when the sun slants toward its autumnal solstice, he lays down his tools and turns his thoughts to rest and fun. Last week as August gave way to September the time had come for the gala event of the farm year?the State Fair. In twelve great agricultural states the exciting aroma of hot dogs filled the noses, the brave piping of calliopes filled the ears and the bright...
First recorded super-nova was observed in the Milky Way in 1572. It was visible in full daylight. Another appeared in Andromeda in 1885. Since 1900 about a dozen have been found by chance on photographic plates, mostly in the Virgo cluster of nebulae. Drs. Baade & Zwicky estimate that each galaxy has one super-nova every thousand years. The average nebula contains a billion stars. If one star committed suicide in the super-nova manner every thousand years, the nebula would be exhausted in one trillion years?which happens to be the figure commonly set by astrophysicists as the minimum...
These galaxies are not independent organizations, but are merely units in larger organizations which he called galaxies of galaxies. The nearest of these galaxies, he said, is eleven million light years from here. It is situated in the constellation of Coma and Virgo. It contains about 250 constituent galaxies. These are galaxies of a dwarf type. They apparently measure only from five to twenty thousand light years in diameter...
...Henry Peabody, whose gesture a few years ago in moving to Florida by way of protest when Massachusetts repealed its dry law was a charming contribution to local tabuloalty, has aesped into the headlines again. In a speech defending Prohibition (O quam to memorem virgo) she urged that every woman in the United States should go into morning when the eighteenth amendment is repealed. In no other way can the nation's relapse into the arms of the Harlot of Rum be fittingly symbolized...
...thrown her engagement and wedding rings into a trunk and jumped. The police released Confectioner Siaperas, but the inquest went on. The bride's honor in question, her family invoked church law, called three doctors. Meanwhile, Dr. Peter N. Hatzis examined the body of Mrs. Siaperas, pronounced her virgo intacta...