Word: virgo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Sunset Strip, the smooth-talking fellows with the gleaming teeth no longer wink and say, "Come up and see my etchings." Last week, as the sun picked up the trine of Jupiter and Uranus, the new line was "Let's compare horoscopes," and many a forthright Virgo walked away enchantedly on the arm of a leering Libra...
...marriage was ill-starred and the ioman Catholic wife, the former Marie Carmichael Stopes, eventually got an annulment. From years of married frustration (the church recognized her as virgo intacta), the 38-year-old doctor of science, authority on paleobotany (fossils) ind coal, drew the inspiration for a tract on what the marriage bed should be. Its title: Married Love...
...changed her grip from the Continental, which allows a player to make forehand and backhand shots without rotating the racket, to the Eastern grip, which requires a slight rotation of the racket but allows a smoother, more powerful swing. Above all, he gave her confidence. "I'm a Virgo," says Althea, who takes her astrology seriously. "Sydney's an Aquarius, a guy of profound perception...
...letter M apparently goes back to the Chinese Luna constellation Ψwhich in old forms of Hebrew turned into Ψ The Chinese Luna station is San, which is in the solar period Virgo. The astronomical symbol for Virgo: Ψ. To Scholar Moran, all this does more than shed light on the alphabet. Says he: "We are able to trace as never before the golden thread which runs through human history from the barbarity of human sacrifice and the earliest glimmerings of a vengeful God to the highest revelation that we have of ourselves as the children...
...Virgo. A pall will settle over the University when the first crop of Advanced-Standees flunk out on placement tests. "We made a few mistakes," Dean Bundy will admit. "Those little beggars can be deceptive...