Word: woolf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...English ghosts in general nowadays tend to be literary and neurotic. One is a "novelist of sensibility" with a Virginia Woolf style; another worries, "Am I losing weight?" Among the best of Editor Asquith's pieces...
...undergraduate division, James P. Moffet '51 won a first prize of $500 for his essay entitled, "The Relation of the laner and Outer Lives in the Works of Virginia Woolf." Henry Steele Commager Jr. '54 won the second prize of $300 and Thomas J. McGrath '52 won a $100 third prize...
...Eliot became his kindly mentor and publisher; an independent income relieved him of the rigors of earning a living. Six months of the year he shared a house with Novelist Christopher Isherwood in seamy-gay Berlin; at home, he was wined & dined by Virginia Woolf, rubbed shoulders with William Butler Yeats, Aldous and Julian Huxley, Bertrand Russell. Some poets might have been stimulated by all this, but Poet Spender kept finding bumblebees in his blossoms. "In the life of action," he noted sadly, "I do everything that my friends tell me to do, and have no opinions...
...little brochure put out by the society explains the procedure of weightlifting. The seven-page leaflet is the work of Milton H. Woolf, a part-time student at the University...
Weightlifting, Woolf claims, is beneficial for anyone training for another sport. It is especially helpful for sports which stress personal contact and endurance such as crew, football, track, and wrestling. Several varsity members of these teams have worked out with weights this year...