Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minimum standards of health and decency." Its slums are among the worst in the world. Only one out of four farms has central light and heat, running water, a bathroom. One source of improvement will come from putting attractive homes within the reach of the small wage-earner who hitherto has given 20% of his income to a landlord. Low construction costs make the present opportune for such a movement, and building materials companies with little business on hand watch eagerly for straws...
...attentive observers of modern educational trends the report that Massachusetts State College is seriously considering the institution of an A.B. degree is not surprising. This school has hitherto been regarded as one of the staunchest strongholds of agricultural training. But the ravages of the depression among students in large universities has produced a pilgrimage to schools where education may be obtained at minimum cost. It is highly conceivable that the demand for classical degree has proceeded from this group...
...hockey games in Boston is a form of indoor athletics that is greatly "over-emphasized." In this case the Bulletin does not favor "giving the game back to the boys," but hopes to see it abolished altogether--if possible, by the boys themselves, if not, then by the authorities. Hitherto this species of misconduct has been dealt with leniently by both sets of authorities. It is a difficult matter for the police to handle because it is never clear who is primarily responsible. When the police descend, they descend upon the just and the unjust alike. The University authorities would...
...promoter, his engineer, his banker, his real estate agent, his renting agent, and the many other people with whom he must work out his architectural problem. A student will thus acquire a knowledge of a phase of architecture which is most important and in which he has had hitherto no instruction whatever...
...Many types of time pieces, special cameras, theodolities, compasses and such things are included. A room near the entrance has been set aside for the use of the Travellers' Club, a body of distinguished gentlemen whose interest in travel and exploration has drawn them together but who have been hitherto without permanent quarters. A prized furnishing of their room is a large wall map, much lined with red, representing the journeyings of its members...