Word: hitherto
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Before attempting anything else the Commission should create and agree upon a system or formula for measuring in mathematical units the combative strength of any vessel. Hitherto a different "measuring stick" has been used by almost every navy, and in consequence their experts have really not spoken a common statistical language...
Professor Fay achieved the spotlight last fall with his two volume book on the "Origins of the World War." It was written after an exhaustive study of hitherto concealed archives and documents and is the most definitive work yet published on the subject...
...current issue of the Alumni Bulletin carries a letter from the captain of the University crew inviting all interested graduates to follow the practice of the squad from a launch to be reserved for their use. Hitherto, former members of the varsity boat have been welcomed at the crew house and arrangements made for their presence in one of the coaching launches, but the present invitation to all alumni of whatever description is an unusually thoughtful courtesy. It should do much to nourish the atmosphere of amateurism and friendly sportsmanship which has always been more noticable in rowing than...
...version became a model for opera houses of the world and the medium for Basso Chaliapin's incomparable Tsar. Then, last year. Professor Paul Lamm, working under the music section of the Russian State Publishing Department at Moscow, published a version "in accordance with the autographed manuscripts, including hitherto unpublished scenes, episodes, fragments, and variants"-the original Boris. In this form it was produced on the Soviet stage. Last week this edition was brought out by the Oxford University Press and announced for its first performance outside of Russia by Leopold Stokowski, enterprising maestro of the Philadelphia Orchestra...
...Hitherto it had proved impossible to gain general acceptance of any definite figure in respect to any of the huge sums involved. But the Young Memorandum, secret, was understood to lay down as fixed beyond all need of further dickering this principle: Germany will pay the Allies not less than the total they owe the United States in War debts-namely...