Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from it he told last week in a 337-page volume laconically entitled The Butterflies of the District of Columbia & Vicinity. In it Butterfly Lover Clark, who is curator of echinoderms at the U. S. National Museum and only smells butterflies as a pastime, poetically reveals several hitherto unsuspected facts concerning the butterfly. Items...
When the Ministers of Interior trooped home without committing themselves, Fascist fury began to show itself openly for the first time against Chancellor von Papen and his "Cabinet of Monocles," hitherto tolerated as better than the BrÜning Cabinet (TIME, June 13). "This Government," exploded Der Angriff, Berlin organ of Herr Hitler, "has nothing to do with the Fascist Party! It has out-BrÜninged BrÜning in issuing oppressive decrees. These last are hammer blows on the backs of a starving people...
...Stone on this evidence but instead exonerated it of wrongdoing. Miss Roberts told of having lost "several hundreds of thousands of dollars because of this sort of thing." She spoke caustically of "the assured impudence of Mr. Whitney's dishonesty." Unwilling to re-open this old feud, which had hitherto escaped publicity, was Hayden, Stone & Co. last week. They implied that the suit had been won on technicalities, that Miss Roberts was a "bad loser" as well as a woman who would leave no Hayden, Stones unturned...
...extracurricular zeal. Queen Balkis, for her part, is drumming the floor of her rocking camel-litter with her heels, impatient to arrive. The purpose of her pilgrimage is both political and personal. In the land of Sheba, dynastic laws require that rulership repose exclusively in the hands of virgins. Hitherto the ruling virgins had propagated their royal race by divine miracle-a newborn babe would be discovered in the temple by the priests, and at the same time the virgin breasts of the queen would miraculously begin to give milk. But no such luck befell Balkis, even though...
...understood by first of all forgetting the misunderstood and unfortunate phrase, "Harvard cross-section." The plan, for one thing, has aided the realization of the athletics-for-all policy, and has provided a broader life both for the undergraduate and for the Faculty, giving a certain unity to a hitherto amorphous body. President Lowell has been quoted to the effect that the plan was intended primarily to do for studies what the stadium and the band have 'one for athletics. The more frequent contact between student and tutor, between sophomore and senior; worth-while conversation in the dining halls...