Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...armaments, confer and cooperate with other nations, especially through "existing international agencies" for world peace. Said the letter: "An acquisitive society, as the modern age has been aptly called, stands bewildered in the presence of a crisis precipitated ... by the competitive, profit-seeking principles upon which, it has hitherto been assumed, general prosperity is based...
...flying trip to Detroit to shame the Legion out of asking for immediate payment in full of its adjusted service certificates (TIME, Sept. 28). At Olympia Arena the resolutions committee placed before the 1,415 delegates a measure asking for a submission of the Prohibition question to State referenda. Hitherto the Legion's Dry element has blocked similar measures by raising a point of order, declaring that Prohibition is not the Legion's business. This time National Commander Ralph T. O'Neil from the bone-Dry State of Kansas was prepared. Banging on the Legion...
...sorority houses. In the course of agitation for the ban's removal, Jean Van Evera, woman's editor of the Daily Northwestern, pored over the back files of the student publication. As a result of her search, Editress Van Evera was able to give the world a hitherto unknown bit of Willardiana...
...Slavery but Sectionalism Adams considers was the real issue of the clash. When the South lost, its civilization was ruined; an American dream had gone forever-but not the American dream. With the passing of the frontier came "one of the really great turning points in our history." Hitherto, when the West had revolted against Eastern domination the West had always won. But "in 1896 [when Bryan ran for President against McKinley] for the first time, a revolt of the frontier failed. Something had gone out of American life. Something new had entrenched itself against attack...
...elementary course conducted at breakneck speed to enable the student to do considerable reading in the chronicles, leechdoms, and the amusing lives of the saints. Then there are occasional bright spots in the form of informal lectures on various linguistic phenomena and interesting etymologics. Mr. Whiting, who has hitherto assisted in the course, has full charge of it this year and his previous competence promises well for its success...