Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duke of York, heir to the Throne and hitherto always dignified to the point of insipidity, was so quickened and excited last week about whether he might at any moment become King and Emperor that, after a conference with his mother, Queen Mary, breathless York alighted at his home and rushed inside to tell his Duchess the latest with the long-legged bounce of a bolting jack rabbit, too fast for anything but the camera to catch (see cut). The accustomed massive aplomb of the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin was accelerated until the Prime Minister became one day last week...
...remarkable chapters of Harvard medical annals. Taking over the reins at a time when the old guard brought the department to the shocking state of ineptitude that culminated in the wild-fire German measles epidemic in the spring of 1935, the new regime has brought the organization back to hitherto unscaled heights of competence and efficiency...
This gave acute pain to many of Joachim von Ribbentrop's hitherto close English friends, and they were further pained to learn that the German Ambassador now becomes a member of a joint German-Japanese commission which will permanently function to frustrate World Revolution. That some of this high-powered frustrating is evidently going to be done in London was unwelcome news indeed to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, and he was further ruffled by reports that Herr von Ribbentrop had told Der Führer that the English of 1936 simply will not fight "unless their soil is invaded...
...appearance of the Student Council questionnaire officially opens the long-expected investigation into the subject of private tutoring schools. Hitherto the whole subject has been treated with a sort of hush-hush secrecy, as if the famed "cram" parlors were sacrosanct pillars of Harvard society and above the taint of investigation or suspicion. With the enrollment lists to these institutions growing steadily each year and with an annual scandal involving similarity of term themes among habitues, both the University and the Council have chosen a splendid occasion to launch this new drive against what may in time become a distinct...
Through an ingenious packing of balsa wood and "ice cream bags" the weathermen have been able to overcome the main obstacle to such night observations--the very low temperatures at heights of ten miles or more, which, in the absence of the sun, have hitherto frozen instruments hung from the balloon...