Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announcement of an addition to the ranks of fields of concentration,--"History and Science", has been greeted with unusual interest on all sides. Intended as an opportunity for general cultural knowledge in these two lines, the new field will combine two branches of education hitherto largely supposed to be widely dissimilar and imbued with entirely divergent aims. Never before has History been linked to Science as a basis for a more broad and general education and the newcomer will be watched with the interest due an intelligent and highly potential innovation...
...ominous fact was that the raid had taken place at all. It meant that the Italian force had won a crucial victory over Haile Selassie's own well-trained private guard, that Marshal Badoglio, hitherto scrupulously careful to avoid treading on French or British toes with an attack on Addis Ababa, was willing to risk everything again in a furious attempt to end the war before the Little Rains descended and bogged his armies in inaction...
...Singing Kid (Warner). Cinemaddicts for whom Warner Brothers musicals have hitherto been trademarked by the presence of Ruby Keeler, Joan Blondell, Guy Kibbee and Frank McHugh, may well rub their eyes to discover herein such novelties as Negro Bandmaster Cab Calloway, the Yacht Club Boys, a British-sounding ingenue named Beverly Roberts and a 6-year-old moppet called Sybil Jason, imported from Capetown by way of London. Among child actresses, Sybil Jason is to Shirley Temple as Jean Harlow is to Ann Harding: less whole some but more refreshing. She made her stage debut at 3. doing imitations...
...driven to the conclusion that a censorship has been imposed in this Library to which Harvard has not hitherto been accustomed. Can it be that there is discord on the question of freedom of inquiry between University Hall and a certain section of Emerson Hall? Louis Harap...
...week that his company's earnings this year were running 100% ahead of a year ago. In 1935 Phillips took in $92,000,000-19% more than in 1934. But benefiting from its famed "polymerization" process, which converts into high-grade motor fuels waste gases and refinery products hitherto lost or used in inferior products (TIME, Sept. 2), Phillips made $13,400,000 as against $5,757,000 in the previous year...