Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Under the direction of Herbert Putnam '83, during the past thirty years the library has grown to be the largest of its kind in the western hemisphere, with 4,000,000 books. But there has been growth in other than physical lines. Dr. Putnam is making a great experiment hitherto untried...
...have resembled a series of Negro nightclubs. Nor is the Lord God any less credible because he is imagined as working, like all important beings, in an office with a rolltop desk. From such humble visions, welling out of the fervid spirit of the black man. Playwright Marc Connelly, hitherto chiefly famed for his wit, has fashioned what is indubitably one of the most beautiful and affecting plays of recent years...
...worse, the college men of today, and there are over a million of them, will be the leaders of tomorrow, and their opinion must be of real value and force. Through their undergraduate publications and other organizations, they have excellent media through which to voice their sentiments. Hitherto, little concerted use has been made of these facilities to express student opinion on national affairs, but the evils of prohibition come so close to college men both during and after their undergraduates days that it seems more than legitimate for the collegiate press to step out of its usual role...
...Shanghai, bandits broke all the Chinese traditions of kidnaping, abducted the hitherto-scorned girl babes of wealthy China merchants. The New Nationalist Government's recent decree, making daughters as well as sons heirs of their fathers, has also given them ransom value...
...which Potiphar, played by the splendidly silly Ferdinand Gottschalk, is too stupid to see, digging irrigation ditches because he does not believe in the pluvial generosity of the Egyptian gods, and finally escaping execution by persuading his gaoler that the gaol can be made to pay. Actor Jessel has hitherto been vaudevillian in his tendencies; now he shows himself as a player both subtle and adroit. In conjunction with Playwright Bloch's originality and George S. Kaufman's shrewd direction, this results in one of the season's more amusing pieces...