Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, by the terms of the will of Mrs. Louis McLane Tiffany of Baltimore, the University of Virginia became the owner of a portrait of George Washington, hitherto unknown to the public (see cut), presumably painted from life, the work of Rembrandt Peale. Simultaneously it became known that another Washington portrait had been brought to light. It was done by Rembrandt Peale's father Charles Willson Peale, has hung for years in Richmond's quiet Westmoreland Club. This canvas was "discovered" by one who dispenses portraits of the first U. S. President at 2 ? each...
...league, beautifully drilled team from little Holy Cross, hitherto of no account, gave miserable Harvard a lesson in lateral passing and line bucking...
Three members of the Crimson coaching staff will be on duty this winter for indoor work: Coach Whiteside, Coach Haines of the Freshman eight, and Kenneth Hall, who has hitherto directed the work of the dormitory oarsmen. He assisted Coach Haines this fall with inexperienced first-year oarsmen, and will probably take up dormitory coaching again in the spring...
...Cannon Song March and Dean West's Triple Cheer, featuring. Mr. Hubert Prior ("Rudy") Vallee, ph.B. Yale '27. It was, we, gather, through the unwillingness, nay refusal, of Harvard to enter into a phonographic entente cordiale with Yale that we are permitted this unprecedented opportunity to enter the Valhalla hitherto occupied exclusively by the University of Maine...
Further indication of studious Oxford's sudden interest in winning intercollegiate contests-an aspiration hitherto regarded by many an Oxonian as unworthy and "American"-is found in the fact that famed Old Blues have lately been enlisted to coach the varsity teams; college and hall teams have been encouraged to train diligently, schedule hard matches...