Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Springing the surprise upset of the rugby season so far in the East, the University team trampled the hitherto undefeated Tigers in the dust in the first meeting of the two rivals last Saturday in Cambridge. The game finished as a 15 to 3 victory for Harvard...
...opposition. The assurance that without his support in the North and East no candidate can carry a united party so necessary for election will weigh heavily in the plans of party managers. By an artful maneuver, Mr. Smith has injected the element of precariousness into a campaign which has hitherto proceeded with unusual orderliness; and he has measurably augmented the influence which he will enjoy in the final in the final choice of a party candidate...
...only for the charitable institutions but for the workers themselves. Some men have received an opportunity to test their teaching ability by actual practice; many have welcomed the chance to study the customs and conditions of another social stratum; all have experienced the exhilaration of volunteer service work. Hitherto, upperclassmen have responded in large numbers; but now House interests have diverted their attention. In altering its organization to fit new conditions, the Phillips Brooks House takes a well considered step toward insuring its efforts hearty support that the work deserves...
...cater to suburban trade, large retailers have for some time been experimenting with two kinds of small stores. Chain stores have been highly successful in selling standardized merchandise at low prices for cash. Branch stores (subsidiaries of a large central unit, as distinguished from chains of small units) hitherto have had two handicaps to overcome: 1) they have been unable to carry the huge stocks that have made successes of such stores as Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co.; 2) in the case of stores specializing in a few types of goods, the branches have not always been able...
...other foods. They, more knowing, accept no substitutes: while they have him they eat him, and him alone. Taken together, these constitute man's interior environment. But there are others who attack from the outside. Mosquitoes, crab-lice, bedbugs, fleas help to make life what it is. If hitherto you have found your acquaintances uninteresting, this entertaining account of their pests & parasites will help you to see more in them. And if you yourself happen to harbor some of the deadlier species, Dr. Causey's professional attitude will help you take your miseries philosophically and with calm...