Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...local Harvard Professor Piston make good, solemn critics were agreed that his symphony was one of the most individual and stirring works of its kind by a U. S. composer. Praised were its skillful instrumentation and the rugged climax of its final movement. Noted also was an emotional juiciness hitherto lacking in Composer Piston's music...
...assumptions, however, the Sculptor cluster is sufficiently different from any other known star systems to warrant the belief that it represents a hitherto undisclosed classification, Dr. Shapley said...
...House of Commons last week the Prime Minister, after many urgings to disclose the foreign policy of His Majesty's Government, said: "I believe today as I have believed hitherto, that we shall best serve peace, we shall best serve the cause of freedom, if we keep out of Spain and maintain a policy of nonintervention, if we don't attempt to burn our fingers as other nations may well do." After this the temper of the House was shown by a vote of 317-to-141 favorable to the Prime Minister...
...Francisco last week Dr. Martin Icove Green, 39, surgeon of a busy eye hospital, wishing to emulate the Russian example, asked-with considerable circumspection-for authority to take corneas from the eyes of the dead. Hitherto in the U. S. such corneal transplants have come from living eyes (removed because of tumors, etc.) and coreas for transplanting have usually been available only when a patient whose eye was removed goodheartedly offered it to another sufferer...
Revelation No. 1: Very simply Klim mentioned the hitherto unknown fact that Admiral Vladimir Orlov, who recently "disappeared" from his post as Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Navy, and Admiral A. K. Sivkov, who "disappeared" from command of the Baltic Fleet, "have been wiped off the face of the earth as fascist bandits, traitors and spies...