Word: virgo
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...Henry Peabody, whose gesture a few years ago in moving to Florida by way of protest when Massachusetts repealed its dry law was a charming contribution to local tabuloalty, has aesped into the headlines again.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memorem virgo) she urged that every woman in the United States should go into morning when the eighteenth amendment is repealed.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...
Notwithstanding Northampton's brave rhetoric, Harvard and Radcliffe are as close now as two such constellations can well be without perturbation of the planets under the Zodiacal high-sign of Virgo. Such a nicety of balance exists that, though celestial bodies remain undisturbed in their several classrooms, yet an isolated meteorite may drop into Dunster House of a Sunday afternoon, and now and then a Radcliffe shooting star leaves its trail in the night...
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...