Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard's great tenure battle is entering a new and more active stage. Yesterday morning the matter was first reported by metropolitan daily newspapers (hitherto Time has been the only publication to touch it), and it is certain that the coming salvos of publicity will force the Administration to play a different sort of game. Moreover, there has been intensified action on a number of University fronts; although none of the recently issued statements alters one whit the positions which have been previously taken...
Great joy was what the Anderson story brought to the heart of Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, chief propagandist for Adolf Hitler. Hitherto personally muted since war began, Dr. Goebbels last week seized this occasion for a full-dress radio tirade against Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, British Admiralty chief. He said Mr. Anderson "proved" that Mr. Churchill had the Athenia blown up with a bomb set off aboard at a wireless signal, later had destroyers finish the job. Direct translation of his remarks in German (which were toned down, as customary, in an official English version) read: "That...
...arbitrarily from the free governments all possibilities of obtaining such supplies as it has been hitherto customary for belligerents to obtain from neutrals in time...
...addition to Koufman, another capable end makes his appearance on the Varsity squad after a long injury. He is Gene Lovett, a teammate of Koufman's on the 1937 Yardlings. Levett weighs 198, and is 6 feet, 1 inch tall. Like Koufman, his bulk is expected to stabilize the hitherto featherweight wing squad...
...week even laundry soap was hard to get. Housewives were advised to soak potato peelings in water, use the resulting mess as soap. Discovery that cellulose, used in making explosives, can be produced from discarded potato tops was announced in Berlin last week, caused the price of potato tops, hitherto not marketed but thrown away, to rise in Germany...