Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...burden of the first Five-Year Plan has fallen most heavily lately on the bulky shoulders of Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze, chairman of the Supreme Economic Council until three weeks ago, the weight of the second Piatiletka will be carried mostly by a hitherto minor figure in Russian industry, Isidor E. Liubimov, onetime Deputy Commissar of Trade and delegate to the London wheat conference last spring. In preparation for the new plan, the Supreme Economic Council was recently reorganized into three separate departments?Heavy Industry, Light Industry and Lumber (TIME, Jan. 18). Commissar Liubimov will have the stupendous task of providing Russia...
...Manhattan she will sing Tosca, hitherto regarded as the sacred property of Soprano Maria Jeritza, also tall, blonde, athletic, but no spitter...
...enticing ("Bovril tickles the palate"), or purely comic ("Take Bovril and keep up to Pa," with a picture of a small boy standing on a bottle of Bovril). Competing beef extracts-like Oxo, which comes in cubes, Lemco, in crocks, or Beefex-have never endangered Bovril's prestige. Hitherto, Bovril sales in the U. S. and Canada have been handled by Harold F. Ritchie, "world's greatest salesman," who owns Eno's Fruit Salt (morning-after tonic), Pompeian Cream (face restorer) and who recently purchased for several million dollars Scott's Emulsion (delicious white cod-liver...
...frequently argued that these men do more harm than good, that they create false impressions, misuse the facts of history, draw largely upon fluent imaginations. In part these accusations are doubtless true, but much can be said in opposition. Strachey has brought to life many men and women that hitherto have passed unnoticed save by academicians. He has given many people an idea of a time other than their own. He has made of Elizabeth more than a Queen who smiled vaguely down upon the youth Shakespeare. And he has given many happy, instructive hours...
...Vagabond turned hopefully toward the third, hitherto silent, member of the party. "I never have read the column." The Vagabond pushed away his plate of humble pie and departed, the world in ashes. The cruel words rang loudly in his old ears and when he thought thereon he wept...