Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Named committee chairman was William Brown Bell, president of American Cyanamid Co. (chemicals), hitherto famed chiefly for the bitterness of his attacks on the New Deal and for his attempt to secure Muscle Shoals for his company. "I'm a rank amateur in politics." bonged Mr. Bell last week, "but I'm pretty much disturbed by the condition of the country...
...Hitherto there has been little sympathy among Egyptians for Italy," concluded Mme Zaghlul, "but there is no telling what may happen now, with the Egyptian people in their present mood...
...H.A.A. News has hitherto been listed under "Administrative and Other Expenses". Last year it was separated and showed a profit of over...
...Hitherto Professor Bridgman has had to confine his experiments to a pressure of 12,000 atmospheres. Some tests were made as high as 20,000, but the apparatus was continually breaking. The steel cylinders bulged like lead...
...Hitherto when insects and larvae attacked fine Gobelin tapestries, or worms burrowed deep into the soft wood of old chairs, very little could be done about it. Now, however, the objects suspected of harboring any of nature's anarchists are simply locked up in a dark safe-like room and thoroughly fumigated with carboxide gas for a period of from 24 to 36 hours...