Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lindbergh; the bundle, his wife. Said he: "How are you fixed for grub? ... Er ... you'll excuse me. this is Mrs, Lindbergh-it's for her." Later the Lindberghs and hosts explored cliff-dwelling ruins to which Lindbergh led the way, having discovered from, the air a hitherto unknown path. Last weekend Col. Lindbergh paid a visit to Professor Robert Hutchings Goddard of Clark University (Worcester, Mass.) to learn more about high altitude rocket experiments (TIME. July 29). Said Informaniac Walter Winchell in the New York Mirror: "Of course it will be vigorously denied, but the Col. Chas...
...Harvard University soccer team concluded a successful season by defeating the hitherto unconquered Yale team by a 2 to 1 score Saturday morning. The game was carried to two five-minute overtime periods, in the last of which H. H. Broadbent '32, a consistent star of this season, kicked the ball into the Blue...
...That funds hitherto concentrated in the Stockmarket would go into more legitimate fields (some realtors appeared to think that the public was going to build houses with the money it had lost in the market). Certainly there was much talk of a revival of interest in bonds, which have recently been spurned even by widows and orphans...
...very few Leonids appeared last November, and if more are seen this week, predictions may be made about the coming great show. The entire civilized world is requested in a notice received from the Harvard Observatory to assist in searching for hitherto unknown records of past Leonid showers. Dr. Fisher, known as Harvard's "meteor fisherman", believes that a great many references to the Leonids exist which have not been found. He has already received notice of a chronicle in Syria, made in Damascus in the twelfth century, and containing astronomical observations as far back as the sixth century. Information...
...Hitherto Professor Rogers has been wont to fortify his thesis by evoking the sanction of tradition. But if in his latest pronunciamento he is parting company with the peripatetic, probably he is just showing his usual contempt for pedestrianism...