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Word: hitherto (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the aid of Mount Wilson Observatory, California, it has been possible to show definitely that the two mammoth star islands, each containing thousands of stars, belong to an entirely new class of stellar system, hitherto unknown in the universe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shapley, Astronomy Head, Announces Identification of Gigantic Star Clusters | 5/5/1939 | See Source »

...good times and bad make up a vast and virtually untapped market for building. For this 35%, houses must cost from $4,000 down. ARCHITECTURAL FORUM gave architects virtually the first survey of the problems of designing houses in this price range, which they have hitherto ignored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Brass Tacks | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

Coach Stahl's hitherto sparkling infield turned the seventh into a farce. Gannett walked to open the inning, and Polzer followed with a single, Mogk dropped a bunt toward third, which Healey fielded, throwing wild past first, two men tallying, and Mogk going to second. Curtiss mounted the mound...

Author: By Thoodore R. Barnett, | Title: Mikkolamen Whip Crusaders, Huskies; Big Red Beats Nine in Sloppy Contest | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...bought 134,000 copies. Nazi highbrows, calling it irresistible, found it an attack on "plundering mercantile Yankee capitalism" and on democracy. Said Das Innere Reich, leading Nazi literary journal, "We see the fall and death of the old aristocrats, the rise of the parvenus, the uncultured, and the Negroes, hitherto wisely controlled." Her German publishers send Margaret Mitchell regular royalty statements but pay her no cash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Literary Life | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...regular House hockey coach, handling also the Freshmen, is extremely practical. In another sport, baseball, the new coach has expressed his willingness to look on the House nines as Varsity "farms." Such will be the case of other House teams, boosted by better material and at least one hitherto Varsity mentor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scanning Council Report | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

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