Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...applied and were refused admittance to the Houses where their tutors will be in residence. If the man in good standing is not to be with his tutor, it is unfair to discriminate against the dropped Freshman. Furthermore, this segregation of the black sheep is a refutation of the hitherto assumed, if idealistic theory that the Houses are to prove an intellectual stimulus because of their atmosphere and the grouping of student and teacher. Certainly the man most in need of this stimulus is the dropped Freshman...
...enclosing my order I am not aware that any of my many friends in U. S. A. will be sending me TIME as hitherto, but you will let me know. In any case it would give me great pleasure to subscribe for TIME for H. R. H. Edward of Wales or someone like that, of course incognito...
...President appointed Paul Martin Pearson of Swarthmore, Pa., elocutionist, Red Cross speaker, Quaker, to be first Civil Governor of the Virgin Islands. Purchased from Denmark in 1917, the islands have hitherto been in charge of the Navy Department with Captain Waldo Evans, retired, as governor. Jurisdiction of the Virgin Islands now passes from the Navy to the Department of the Interior...
Whether the President has been supporting the theoretically right method is not the point. If he should continue his hitherto uncompromising attitude, the aid which must be given without delay will be definitely withheld; for a stubborn Senate is notoriously more unbending than an obstinate President. In a crisis any aid is better than none. The future must be left to take care of itself and the present need satisfied in the most expedient...
Stalkers of New York City's perennially bumptious bogey, Corruption (see p. 12). discovered last week that it had a hitherto unsuspected lair: the schoolroom. Three weeks ago Dr. Maxwell Ross, chairman of the Allied Local School Boards of Brooklyn, learned that his personal cards were being distributed at the Thomas Jefferson Democratic Club in Brooklyn. Puzzled, suspecting no connection with school affairs, he hired Max B. Krone, private detective, to investigate. Detective Krone unearthed two slick racketeering rings, piled up evidence that they boasted of political "hook-ups," promised small favors to all who would pay for them...