Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discovery of a hitherto unknown adrenalin-like hormone was announced yesterday at New Haven in a paper read before the Yale Medical Society by Dr. W. B. Cannon '96, George Higginson Professor of Physiology at the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Cannon who spoke on "The Explanation of a Mysterious Emotional Increase in the Heart Rate," revealed that a chemical substance, which he has named "sympathin" is given off by smooth muscle when stimulated by nerves attached to the spinal cord, over which the brain has no control, and affects the heart directly as does adrenalin. It has previously been supposed...
...time of entombment or of the life of the man are available. . . . The historicity of the New Testament is reinforced in that we have found on this and hundreds of similar ossuaries many names that occur for the first time in the New Testament but of which we hitherto had no proof that they were current...
...this difference : nearly every picture in the Flemish and Italian shows was familiar by reputation at least not only to critics but to the average intelligent tour ist. The Persian exhibition brought to gether for the first time thousands of objects from Persia, from unknown sources all over Europe hitherto absolutely inaccessible (TIME...
...French cellars lies a surplus of more than 100,000,000 gallons of "green juice," for this year's crop was uncomfortably bumper. "Hitherto we have never attempted to market the 'green' product," said a spokesman for the French vintners last week, "but that was only because the buyers have always preferred that it be made into wine in France. If the Americans prefer, all our classic vintages can be shipped green, and, as they say, 'developed' in their homes...
...Jersey, where the sons of Eli are to hold their annual "win, lose, or draw" barn party. The meeting this year is of interest to the public as well, because retiring Coach Bill Roper of Princeton will be the guest of honor. By inviting Mr. Roper to attend this hitherto exclusively Yale gathering, the New Haven graduates not only express their own admiration for their guest but also give evidence of the fine sportsmanship that intercollegiate rivalry can create...