Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most obvious ingredients in the West formula are her extraordinary shape, clothes and means of locomotion. In Goin' to Town she is fatter about the middle than hitherto. Her clothes are less extravagant and consequently less becoming. Her gait remains unchanged...
Waiting on the cobblestones to greet him stood the President of the United States, who presently spoke into a national radio hook-up microphone: "It is no small thing to have filled in another large portion of the map of the world which had hitherto been a blank. It is an equally great achievement to have added valuable information in at least 22 separate branches of science." Then the President of the United States took off his hat and said: "Admiral, I salute you." Then Franklin Roosevelt grasped the Admiral's hand and said: "And let me add just...
...Four times as much scientific data as on Byrd Antarctic Expedition I, including information on the air currents, meteorology, animal life, geology and general physical characteristics of Marie (his wife) Byrd Land, a hitherto unknown territory of 250,000 sq. mi. which he discovered and claimed for the U. S.; a mass of data on cosmic rays, Polar meteorology, astronomy, geology, hydrography, oceanography, terrestrial magnetism, glaciology, botany, bacteriology, biology...
...partly grounded; that the ice at the South Pole varies in thickness from two feet to two miles; that more meteors strike the earth's atmosphere than was formerly suspected; that the Edsel Ford Mountain Range may be a continuation of the great Andean Range; that a hitherto unknown area of 250,000 sq. mi. is part of the Pacific Ocean; that the inland fauna of Antarctica consists solely of skua gulls which live on 50 kinds of moss; that Antarctica is all one continent, as large as the U. S., Mexico and part of Canada combined...
...March a wayfarer saw a flock of great, vulture-like birds tearing and gulping the carrion. They were bald eagles, of which only an occasional pair had hitherto been seen in the neighbor hood. Since then Cherryfielders have dropped their ordinary recreations to watch the birds. Twice each day, at sun rise and sunset, the eagles swoop on the stinking feast from their five-foot-wide nests in the trees of Cat's Skin Mountains. Observers have been able to approach within 400 ft. of the birds. A truckman's wife counted 30 at one time through...