Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these might be mentioned. Never is the hunting, wild-nature aspect so overemphasis as to emerge into the usual naturefaker travelogue; always it fits quietly and briefly, nicely timed. The picture as a whole accomplished two things which I never thought to see done: it makes the hackneyed and hitherto invariably repulsive love-among-the-savages theme ring true; and it wipes out the station on Hollywood left by a long succession of darkest Africa, raw-meat-in-the-jungle, ameba-love abortions...
...inquisitive organization has sent out to all members of the undergraduate body a questionnaire which in its thoroughness of enquiry, scope of imagination, and absence of tact has hitherto been equalled only by the advertisements of soaps and mouth-washes. This questionnaire represents perhaps the zenith of the Psychologist's bad taste and offers yet another example of the folly of Science when she strays too far from her crucibles and astralobes...
...present administration is anxious to give the impression that it plays no favorites, that the little fellow and the big fellow are treated alike. But the rule of justice which hitherto has permitted an administrative official to decide whether a case ought or ought not to be criminally prosecuted now has been weakened and the grand juries will be asked to decide. If the presumption of doubt is raised because what have been believed to be lawful deductions are taken by the taxpayer, then the time may come when income tax cases will fill up the federal court dockets just...
...other words, self-liquidating loans, which hitherto have been by banking practice limited to ninety days with a renewal or two, dependent or conditions at each renewal date, will be supplanted by longer term commitments on credit at perhaps a higher interest rate than would be charged for short time accommodations...
...powers which can naturally be counted upon to oppose the hogemony of the Little Entente in central and southern Europe. This has long been a project close to the heart of Mussolini, faced as he is by the overwhelming strength of France and her allies; but he has hitherto been prevented from realizing it by the active objections not only of France but also of Germany, and any attempt to make it a reality would not have merely called forth opposition that might quite possibly have wrecked the whole plan, but would in addition have driven France into the arms...