Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...properly belongs. The general cultural level of the liberal arts students, certainly susceptible of improvement, would profit, and the present premium on superficial language study decline, through the additional literature requirement. The principal objection to such a reform is that it would discourage a large group of applicants hitherto acceptable. But of every reform, of every advance in standards, this must be the implication. It is the peculiar weakness of many colleges that they cannot afford to be selective. Surely it is the peculiar privilege, and the peculiar responsibility, of an institution so richly endowed as Harvard...
...population of Austria naturally has nothing to fear. . . . On the other hand this measure is to be understood as meaning that henceforth perpetrators and abettors and participants in disgraceful and bloody crimes and violent acts menacing the public safety will not be able to reckon with the light penalty hitherto specified in our laws...
With its completely revamped lineup the Varsity went through a light workout at Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. The changes that have been rumored but not definitely confirmed hitherto were revealed as final with an official announcement of the starting lineup for the Brown game tomorrow...
...fairest and most balanced estimate of Brahms as man and artist that has yet appeared in any language," Brahms is presented in credible, life-like drawing.* To gather his material Author Robert Haven Schauffler traveled around Europe, talked with 150 people who had known Brahms, among them his hitherto reticent Viennese housekeeper. An expert 'cellist. Author Schauffler gives a sound analysis of Brahms's music but his book's big contribution is the masterly human portrait...
...spectacular nature of the larger comets and is not so moved by the discovery of invisible ones to which the field has of late been reduced From the scientific point of view the recording of comets is important so that general laws can be made for a hitherto mysterious dement in the sky. It was once figured that people devoting full time to the search for comets spent on the average 400 hours of actual observation between each discovery...