Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...where the apes, crocodiles, lions, tigers, dwarfs, elephants and gorillas are better acquainted with their histrionic duties and can discharge them more effectively. Almost as effective as the animals is Tarzan Weissmuller. His ability as a swimmer has never led him into jungles. The wildest animal he ever knew hitherto was the comparatively tame and toothless alligator which used sometimes to be allowed to splash comically in the Roney-Plaza Hotel's luxurious swimming pool in Miami, where Weissmuller was swimming instructor. Nevertheless he acquits himself creditably. His spare frame is not too skinny for the role; he swims faster...
...winter of 1930-31 Thomas crossed the great southern desert of Arabia, which had hitherto constituted the largest expanse of wholly unexplored land outside the Antarctic continent. He will illustrate his talk, which is open to all members of the University with motion pictures. This lecture is made possible through the kindness of Charles R. Crane...
...Hitherto Walter Hastings Hall has been the only building reserved strictly for Law School students. The first floor of Perkins, which takes care of graduate students, has also been sacred to that future barristers. With these accomodations, only about 200 lawyers have been residing in University dormitories. The new additions more than double the available facilities, but do not begin to house the 1600 students registered under the Faculty...
...Hitherto, the great majority of Law School men have been unable to live in University buildings, for the facilities have provided for only a small percentage of the fifteen hundred students. They have been forced to dwell in scattered boarding houses and apartments, and most have had to take their meals in restaurants...
...problem can not be permanent. But instead of demanding that expensive subsidies to veterans and bureaucratic, extravagance be abolished, the cry will go up prematurely for socialism or for government poor relief. The strictures of the income tax will be felt where the depression has struck only lightly hitherto. In any case the rich do not wave a red flag. There have been casualties among the capitalists, but the dance has gone on. A stiff income tax may prevent the spectacle of a bread line shouldering the bejeweled guests at a charity ball...