Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Junior Class. The provision for a competition between the two assistants for the position of Secretary in their senior year ought to insure a well-drilled undergraduate personnel for the seats on the Inter-House Council and for the intensive organization of the teams in the individual Houses. Hitherto Director Samborski has had little or no real representative contact with the undergraduates of the Houses, a crying fault which the Council idea should completely cradicate...
...girls from Gimbel's, the owner's radical daughter and conservative son, the exhausted Jews, the adulterous Irish-take or reject Obediah's offer of escape, how they react to the sudden necessity of facing their inmost problems, is a situation ably handled by Dramatist Wolfson. Hitherto known as an adapter of Left propaganda plays, in Excursion he exhibits a notable capacity for original characterization and narrative. Without sacrificing any of his play's moral values, he manages to bring the Happiness back into New York Harbor after a wild night off Sandy Hook with...
...assembled many specimens. Of the family of cynodonts,--small, dog-sized, carnivorus lizards,--they obtained the finest fossils ever found in the Americas. The collection includes a large number of complete cynodont skeletons and skulls in good preservation. The world's chief cynodont deposits are in South Africa, and hitherto only fragmentary skulls of this family have been found in South America...
...prefacing pronouncements from two of his most trusted ministers, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace and Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board (TIME, March 29), President Roosevelt declared that prices-at least of certain durable goods-were entirely too high. As a corrective the Government would drop its hitherto basic policy of stimulating heavy industry, direct its spending toward consumer industries...
These three were "comrades" to their Red soldiers until suddenly upped by Dictator Stalin to the hitherto capitalist rank of "Marshal" with enormous five-pointed stars of rank in their lapels. Millionaire Ambassador Davies called for a toast "to the Red Army, an army of citizenry devoted to peace...