Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...potent than fusty old Prince Louis of Monaco, was under withering fire last week from Monégasques who loudly demanded his scalp. On top of the wallop Depression gave Monte Carlo had come a second staggering blow, the decision of the French Government in 1933 to legalize roulette, hitherto a Monte monopoly, in France. Groggy from these two crushers, Director Léon faced last week the minute principality's irate National Assembly. Shouted a deputy who was promptly seconded by Mayor Louis Aureglia of Monte Carlo: "Léon's management has reduced the principality...
...unresponsive students could be employed productively on their own research and writing. Fourth, the promotion of brilliant younger men would inject new blood into the Faculty, and at the same time would reduce the turnover in tutorial personnel, giving the tutorial staff a semblance of permanence which it has hitherto lacked. Finally, the advancement of the best tutors would encourage all the rest, since it would at last become apparent that tutoring is not a blind alley but a recognized part of the highroad to academic honor and distinction...
...seen, this news, a gods to all Freshman humorists, was covered by the aid of very complicated electrical apparatus. The very fact that such a study was undertaken, that the methods of science were allowed invade a hitherto purely artistic field, is taken by those in the know to be another indication of the scientific mind now in the saddle at Harvard...
...National Student League, called the poll "silly since it implies an issue of pacifism impossible in a government pledged to capitalism." Frederick DeW. Bolman, Jr. '35, president of the Debating Council, was hopeful that the poll would actively arouse undergraduate opinion and discussion on pacifism, a subject hitherto regarded almost in the light of fanaticism...
...direct command of GHQ Air Force will be a hitherto obscure field officer named Frank Maxwell Andrews. Not since Roosevelt I jacked John Joseph Pershing from captain to brigadier-general in 1906 had the Army seen so notable a promotion as that which promised last week to elevate Frank Andrews from lieutenant-colonel to brigadier-general. A onetime cavalryman, Col. Andrews is tough, fiftyish, handsome. Army wives call him the best-looking man in service, like to remember the romantic thrill he gave them in 1914 by taking his bride on a horseback honeymoon in Virginia...