Word: hithering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hither...
...unusual Class of '49 has made its mark on the hither edge of the Charles. No longer is the Radcliffe Commencement unbelievable, no longer is joint instruction a practice only of state universities. There is no telling what contribution '49 has made for the future; for the present, bear in mind that this class has had a more complete education than its predecessors, and that upon it will rest the responsibility of proving that joint education is a paying proposition intellectually as well as financially for the school across the Common...
Bombs soared into the air and burst a thousand feet above the harbor into terrible yellow blossom. Shrapnel peppered the brick walls of the warehouses, plowed the planks off the pier, and rained down upon the hissing waters. Shells shot hither & thither, exploding under the touch of the terrific heat and shooting their missiles at random. Some of the shrapnel shells fell even in Manhattan. On the pier arose a white glare as of a million mercury-vapor lights...
Through the '30s, TIME moved very reluctantly into the field of direct reporting. It feared the loss of a unique quality in the Newsmagazine-its coherence, its perspective. Wouldn't a lot of TIME bureaus change the Newsmagazine into just another grabbag of unrelated reports from hither...
...rich voice called for Home Rule. "Thousands who come to see this new wonder, a beautiful woman who makes speeches," wrote Yeats, "remain to listen with delight. . . . The papers of Russia, France, Germany and even Egypt quote her speeches, and the tale of Irish wrongs has found its way hither and thither...