Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...immense revenues which previously went to the Prince of Wales from the Duchy of Cornwall now appertain to His Majesty, although when he first came to the Throne experts disputed weightily whether he retained the title Duke of Cornwall. It has also been arranged that military groups designated hitherto as "The Prince of Wales' Own" retain that designation and their bands continue to play their stirring march, God Bless The Prince of Wales...
...Second Folio, published in 1632, contains the names of the foremost actors in the plays, Shakespeare heading the list. The Third, printed in 1664, claims to present seven hitherto unpublished works "according to true original copies." Six of these are spurious, however, and only one, "Pericles, Prince of Tyre, is Shakespeare's. The others, which include such plays as he "Yorkshire Tragedy" and the "Puritan Widow" are by authors unknown today...
...printed in the "News," it was seen that last-minute fact-grabbing, under the costly guidance of the tutoring school, would be worse than useless; only a sound comprehension of the Major subject will be of use. And it is felt that this will entail more application than has hitherto been the custom...
After Lenin's death his "will," hitherto unpublished, was made public by Widow Krupskaya Lenin at the 13th Party Congress in Moscow...
...Hitherto the fatherly New York Times has been chary about reporting Mrs. Simpson but last week she graduated to full Times coverage of her movements. These were snipped in Britain last week from the current issue of TIME, prompting the New York World-Telegram to cartoon and say: "The story was not scandalous. The censorship must have proceeded from some officious and oversensitive minor official while His Majesty was gone, for there was nothing in the story to offend the King...