Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...additions made to the Oriental Department of the Fogg Museum during the past year, and just recently put on exhibition, are especially significant, the directors have announced. Hitherto unobtainable objects have been acquired through the work of Harvard excavators or as gifts from friends...
Last summer the Directors of the Museum discovered in France a set of embroideries hitherto unknown and unpublished, probably done near Valencia in Spain around 1400, a period from which very few embroideries are in existence today. The large cross-shaped orphrey from the back of the chasuble represents the cruicified Christ; at the foot are the emblems of the Passion and a beautifully unified group composed of the Vigin, Saint John and Mary Magdalene. The wood of the cross is carried out in stitches following the grain, and the background is worked in threads of pure gold couched...
...condition of international law is far from satisfactory at the present," Mr. Wickersham continued. "Problems of a most embarrassing nature are constantly arising, and sometimes constitute serious menaces to the legal harmony of government. Hitherto there has been no single system of law whereby countries can judge their cases. Custom and a wide variety of precedents have been practically the only criteria for the just determination of conduct. Obviously conflict was the inevitable result of such contradictory standards...
...University fencing team will cross swords with the University of Pennsylvania at 4 o'clock this afternoon in the Hemenway Gymnasium. Hitherto little is known of the Penn contingent. Last year, they defeated Harvard...
Tryouts for the fourth annual play given by the Harvard and Radcliffe Menorah Societies will be held in the Paine Music Building from 4.30 to 6.30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. The Society, which hitherto has confined itself to the production of one act plays, is this season undertaking a longer piece, selecting "Disraeli", a four act play by Louis N. Parker...