Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...because of Depression, international hard-feeling or Los Angeles' promotion methods were vastly disappointed last week. The Xth Olympiad was a gorgeous, unprecedented success. More people attended the Games than ever before (510,000 through last week). The athletes (1,740), better housed than ever, enjoyed themselves more than hitherto. In actual competition, it began to look last week as though the Xth Olympiad might be too much of a success: in almost every race, runners broke Olympic records. This was not entirely because the runners at Los Angeles last week were faster than those at Amsterdam...
Longtime head of American Steel Foundries, President Lament well knows the highly competitive steel business. Un like his predecessors he will devote all his time to the Institute, will receive a large salary. Hitherto the Institute has played a passive role, gathering statis tics, urging standardized practices. Twice yearly its members convene to hear papers and, until his death, the scoldings (for price-cutting) of U. S. Steel's Judge Elbert Henry Gary. But with mills running at a fraction of capacity, steel companies have fought like jackals for what busi ness there was. Price-cutting, price-shading, concessions...
...London, more cheerful editors welcomed what several of them termed Senator Borah's "conversion," the Liberal News Chronicle recalling that "he has been hitherto one of the most uncompromising opponents of debt revision." In the City (London's Wall Street) there was a cozy feeling that Cancellation-With-Strings-Attached must be the first step toward Cancellation, whether Senator Borah knows that his "conversion" has begun...
...Secretary Wilson so plainly expressed his approval of the Crusaders' "fair and constructive stand" on Temperance that next day Chicago newspapers drew the exaggerated conclusion that the Dry leader had become "moist." An echo of the Chicago debate, which marked a new and startlingly conciliatory phase in the hitherto...
While one publisher was pulling in his horns last week another, hitherto not widely famed, was looming on the horizon of U. S. magazine publishing. The advancing figure was that of gruff-voiced Frank Aloysius Tichenor, publisher of Aero Digest and Sportsman Pilot. Last week found him in control of a strange new collection: The Spur, Plumbers' & Heating Contractors' Trade Journal, The Port, Outlook & Independent...