Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senate, the Democratic battle for majority leader is of immense importance to the Carter program. The majority leader usually sets the tone and acts as spokesman for Senate Democrats. Leading in this race is Senate Whip Robert Byrd, 58, of West Virginia, a conservative turned moderate. A skillful technician who has parceled out many favors in his six years of running the day-to-day operations of the Senate, Byrd is thought to have 29 votes already lined up-three shy of a majority of the 62 Democrats in the upper chamber...
Fraudulent Dealings. Lament's sudden liquidity, federal prosecutors charged, was the result of fraudulent dealings. She allegedly obtained a $200,000 loan from a West Virginia bank. Then she struck a deal with John Barry, a Canadian who was looking for money to refinance his Toronto film studio; Barry gave her $60,000 in exchange for what he describes as a promise to raise $2 million for him from European banks. By the end of 1973 Barry had received neither his loan nor the return of his original deposit; he then alerted Stoessinger and went to the Canadian authorities...
After listening carefully to tape recordings, 40 men and women students at West Virginia University tried to estimate the height and weight of each of the 30 speakers on the tape. To the delight of Norman J. Lass, who ran the experiment as chairman of the university's speech pathology and audiology department, those estimates were surprisingly accurate. On the average, the volunteer students came within 3½ lbs. and 1 in. of picking the weight and height of the speakers-far closer than they would have achieved with random guesses. "Apparently," says Lass, "there are adequate perceptual clues...
Between 1912 and 1922, Virginia Woolf wrote two novels, Night and Day and Jacob's Room, which secured her reputation, and revised a third, The Voyage Out. Almost weekly she reviewed for the Times Literary Supplement, composing superb little essays. She married Leonard Woolf ("Precious Mongoose" in her letters) and with him founded the Hogarth Press, for which she functioned as chief talent scout and reader of manuscripts as well as typesetter (on the dining-room table). During this decade the press published, among other titles, Prelude by Katherine Mansfield, Poems by T.S. Eliot and Story of the Siren...
...letter to a struggling young writer, Gerald Brenan, Virginia Woolf dropped her entertaining-letter-writer mask to confess: "I am doubtful whether people, the best disposed toward each other, are capable of more than an intermittent signal as they forge past...