Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Javelin-throw, Rope-sinewed George Williams of Hampton College, hitherto not famed, tossed 197 ft. 1½ in., a new carnival record...
...preparing to celebrate its centenary, and the addresses made at its convocation ceremonies are significant of a trend among American educators. "The country needs an exhibit of quality rather than quantity in education," said President Comfort, announcing a new program which will give every older student the individual attention hitherto reserved for honors students, and the address of President Lowell of Harvard echoed the thought...
...well-nigh impossible to make good traditional Republicans out of young persons infected with the heresies of university theorists." The only solution he can offer to this ever-increasing problem, which is presented in the accompanying press clipping, is to lead American youth to citizenship in some new and hitherto undiscovered fashion, entirely independent, of the evils of education...
...Millionaire (Warner). There is nothing spectacular about this picture except that George Arliss the Great, hitherto always decked out in fancy dress for the cinema, wears plain clothes through it all and even-a good deal of the time-overalls. It is still nothing much, only a story about a millionaire whose doctor makes him retire from his business, the manufacture of automobiles, and go to California to rest. Idleness makes him sick, so he sneaks out of his fine house and, under an assumed name, buys a half interest in a filling station. He goes to work...
...past winter, milder than most, permitted buffalo gnats to breed in the streams, hitherto too cold for them. Therefore, after 20 years of immunity, the lower Mississippi valley is suffering again...