Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...occupied by a cretinous dwarf. While his family was out at lunch, the patient suffered a hemorrhage. He could not call out, but the friendly dwarf noticed his condition and rushed for help. After desperate efforts, the bleeding was stanched. Thus, writes Britain's Dr. Ernest Jones, a hitherto unhonored and still unnamed dwarf probably saved the life of Sigmund Freud...
...fellow's veins. This week Hearst's Journal-American (circ. 585.121) launched its boldest raid on rival circulation. At the cost of "close to $1,000,000" a year for more newsprint and personnel, the paper began running complete daily stock-market quotations-a reader-fetching feature hitherto monopolized in the afternoon by Scripps-Howard's World-Telegram and Sum (circ...
...forward to President Eisenhower a private letter in which President Gronchi criticized U.S. policy in the Middle East. And it was clearly at Gronchi's behest that Segni's successor, outspoken Adone Zoli, sought to form a monocolore (single party) government that would moderate Italy's hitherto staunchly pro-Western foreign policy into a more independent policy called, with grandiloquent vagueness, "neo-Atlantism...
...liberal constitutional monarchy with a relatively free press and an effective rather than a puppet Cortes. Most of them favored a constitutional monarchy with Don Juan or his son Juan Carlos on the throne as figurehead and real power at least temporarily in the hands of an army junta. Hitherto they had been concerned only about post-Franco Spain. Now increasingly there was talk that Franco himself, if he did nothing to relinquish some of his authority, might not last in power until his death...
...document lists the following six "facts" as good reason for University action: "1) Warm weather is approaching; 2) This pool is our only recreational facility, hitherto unused; 3) Adams House has its pool; 4) This facility is vacant, serving no present purpose except to gather dust; 5) The pool appears to be in good condition and should not be excessively expensive to reopen, and 6) We feel that this is a reasonable request, that we should rightfully have the use of this pool...