Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stand a long and costly trial with the risk of losing the case and being heavily fined, the defendants agreed to mend their set-up as the Government suggested, stoutly insisting nevertheless that they had violated no law. Their consent will be a boon to the entire radio industry, hitherto befuddled by patent confusion. And Owen D. Young becomes more available for the Roosevelt Cabinet, since now he will not have to appear as a defense witness in one of the biggest anti-trust suits of all time...
...will be the sole licensing agent, General Electric and Westinghouse will pay for what they use on the same basis as outsiders, and all patents available to them will be available to the trade at the same rates. RCA will be able to enter important fields hitherto barred to it, including the manufacture of tubes, transmitters and equipment for non-radio electronics...
...boards have been closing in too rapidly on the Lampoon. Advertisers, finding themselves in financial trouble, have been unable to lend their support. Through the sobering influence of the depression and the scholarly atmosphere of the House Plan, undergraduates are turning from extra-curricular activities; interest in Lampoon competitions, hitherto large, has this fall definitely slackened...
...Hitherto disregarded by the scientific world, a system of transmission of substances between the cells of animal bodies was reported on by G. H. Parker '87, professor of Zoology, before a meeting of the National Academy of Sciences yesterday at Ann Arbor, Michigan. An inter-cellular system of secretions known as "neurohumors," equal in importance to the blood and lymph circulation systems, was described by Professor Parker...
...Raymond C. Shannon guessed better. He went to southwestern Argentina, climbed high, searched long. He found a fly. Back to the Smithsonian in Washington he hastened. There Entomologist Charles Henry Tyler Townsend examined the Shannon fly, pronounced it the missing link between botfly and parasitic fly, a hitherto unknown phenomenon, a botfly with bristles. Entomologist Shannon's find, enthused Entomologist Townsend, is "the most important oestromuscoid discovery of the 20th Century...