Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...objections to this process are for the most part surmountable. The blurred appearance of the letters can be remedied by improvement of typewriter type. Hitherto it has not been profitable for manufacturers of typewriters to prepare type as carefully as in printing, but this new demand for accurate typewriters will result in the necessary improvement. As for the uneveness of typewritten manuscript, due to the uniform space allowed for each letter regardless of its width, there are at present patents in Washington for differential feed typewriters--that is, typewriters which allow a different space for each width of letter...
...Hitherto, American Rhodes scholars were not a great success at Oxford. They failed to mix with the English, and seldom won the higher honors in scholarship...
Professor G. W. Pierce '99, director of the Cruft Laboratory, is now at work on a series of experiments in wireless telegraphy, in which he hopes to solve a number of the problems that have hitherto greatly hindered advancement in this field. In conjunction with these experiments, Professor Pierce is engaged in writing a book which will deal with the latest discoveries in electric oscillations and waves. According to his present plan, the book will be published within the next two or three months...
...Burnham Occ., who has been out of the game for two weeks, took part in the dummy scrimmage and signal practice. A. D. Hamilton '21 took part in the scrimmage for a very short time, the first time since the Brown game. B. Lockwood '22, who has hitherto played a fine game in the line of the second team, was advanced yesterday to Coach Fisher's red-jerseyed squad...
...Graduate School of Business Administration, entering upon its 12th year, has a record-breaking attendance of 365, which is nearly 60 per cent. larger than the biggest enrollment in the past. The number of first-year men alone in the Business School exceeds the biggest enrollment hitherto recorded for the entire school...