Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Castile died from a blow on the head at Palencia in 1217, or from natural causes. Enrique's skull, found in the tomb, confirmed the theory of violent death; it also showed what archeologists interpreted as advanced techniques of trepanation, demonstrating a medieval knowledge of surgery hitherto unsuspected...
...Reporter James A. Bell felt during his long investigation of the gambler and underworld figure who is the subject of this week's cover story. Bell's-and TIME'S-job was to try to separate the facts from the Costello legend and get behind the hitherto published material on Costello...
...Monetti for second place in individual scoring honors in the dinghy racing for the Schell Trophy yesterday on the Charles River. But Putnam's efforts were not equaled by the rest of the Crimson sailors and the team ended in fifth place. Yale took first place and hitherto undefeated King's Point finished third...
...Premier Paul-Henri Spaak, now president of the Council of Europe's Assembly, who had hitherto been mild on the subject of Leopold, called the Leopold-Eyskens agreement "sheer political folly." If the King got less than 55% of the votes, said Spaak, the institution of the monarchy itself could be endangered. "The King would render the country an immense service," added Spaak, "if he agreed to abdicate. If this sacrifice is above his strength, the King could say he would return only with wide popular support . . . at least two-thirds of the whole country...
Hollywood, having recently discovered the hitherto untapped field of racial and religious prejudice, insensately to gather all the fur its as quickly as possible. "Pinky" is beyond the reach of the amateurism which dominated the earliest production; it may have just escaped an era of subtle melodrama-prejudice which is to come...