Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hitherto it has been the habit of producers to lead female spies to their natural, and well-merited end. And this reviewer must confess an inability to discern any ameliorating quality in Miss Bennett's performance. As a Russian spy, she is transparent; as a cabaret performer she sings horridly and dances awkwardly: as a lover she is meticulously unlovely, and earnestly mechanical. In short Miss Bennett has added another dud to her amazing collection. She is ably abetted in this process by a mundane story, by a stolid cast, and by a director with more memory than imagination...
...history is more today than a coordination of knowledge, it is a means to a philosophy. Lacking an explanation of the present or a phophecy of the future, we turn to the past for a key. This in itself is a startling reversal in attitude toward history which has hitherto been regarded less as a guide to the future, than as a justification of the status...
Much attention was attracted to the Japanese style of swimming at the recent Olympic games, held in Los Angeles during the summer of 1932. At that time, the Nippon team, a hitherto rather mediocre squad, showed a sudden speed and stamina which swept all opposition before it and gained the swimming crown for the Japanese...
...table now lay such an agreement-a fat document providing for the unionization of all the soft coal mines of Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Tennessee, part of Kentucky.- Offshoot of the NRA coal code, the agreement prescribed conditions of labor for some 314,000 diggers in hitherto non-union mines. It gave United Mine Workers their own checkweightmen, their own grievance committees, freed them from the necessity of living in company houses, trading at company stores, opened new jobs now held by some 6,000 boys under 17. Out of it operators got the assurance that there would...
...that the recent treasury order, permitting gold to be sold abroad at the world price, which was heralded as a boon to the mining companies, was also a step toward unemployment relief in that it increased by fifty percent the earnings of the small prospector and panner, who has hitherto been obliged to sell at twenty dollars announce while in Canada and other countries gold was bringing a premium as high as eighty-five percent. The small gold miner, however, is still harassed by the old law forcing him to divulge the source of his dust; this law, originally designed...