Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...form of "insulation" as distinguished from "isolation." "New Zealand does not seek isolation from the rest of the world, and least of all from the United Kingdom," he wrote. "What we do want is to guard our people as best we can against the disastrous fluctuations that have hitherto marked our economy...
Frankie & Johnnie (Ethel Waters; Bluebird). Vocalist Waters and a gifted arrangement turn a ballad hitherto sung as funny fiddle-faddle into a tragic folk tale, with much the same quality found in Artist Thomas Benton's garish Frankie & Johnnie mural...
...exact location was not disclosed, but central Asia is thousands of miles farther east than any Neanderthal remains hitherto discovered. Since Soviet science is more notable for enthusiasm than for scholarly caution, some skeptics might have wondered whether the skeleton was really a Neanderthal child or just the luckless progeny of some more recent Mongol wanderer. Dr. Hrdlicka, however, pronounced it a genuine Neanderthal specimen, left no doubt that was one of the most precious childr in anthropology's bare nursery. Dr. Hrdlicka knows...
...route by liner to the U. S. was a treaty-hunting representative of hitherto uncooperative Argentina. And on the U. S. Navy cruiser Nashville, escorted by the next Chief of Staff of the U. S. Army, were Brazil's Chief of Staff Pedro de Goés Monteiro and five of his army officials...
...populous, hitherto undiscovered island...