Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...terrific explosion on a microcosmic scale. Enormous voltages impressed on sub-atomic particles will accelerate them to enormous speeds, but they are so infinitesimally small that the quantity of energy is negligible by ordinary standards.* But in the atomic world a force of 200,000,000 volts has hitherto been recorded only in cosmic ray showers, never in laboratory-created particles...
Song hits from "The Boys From Syracuse" (Decca). Three records in a handy folder-album which include two of the most melodious selections from the Richard Rodgers musicomedy score, hitherto unrecorded-Oh, Diogenes! and You Have Cast Your Shadow on the Sea. Frances Langford and Rudy Vallée sing...
Besides poring over dusty old files of Arab newspapers and digging out much hitherto unpublished diplomatic correspondence, Author Antonius had long interviews with the leading figures of the Arab revolt. The late Hussein, having lost his Hejaz throne, recounted British promises bitterly, supplied several missing links. The late King Feisal of Iraq, Hussein's son, revealed that he had at first opposed the revolt against the Turks...
...figure-skating craze that did an Axel Paulsen jump when the dimpled Norwegian girl joined Hollywood's stars and her twinkle toed maneuvers reached every movie house in the country. This year the skating craze is spinning in a dizzy whirl. Ice-skating rinks have spawned in such hitherto unheard of places as Miami, Houston, Fort Worth...
...southern Catalan front the Rebels thus came within 50 miles of Barcelona, while other columns to the west pressed beyond the stronghold of Cervera, to within 38 miles of the Loyalist capital. Barcelona Province, a month ago 40 miles from the front, became a theatre of War. The hitherto narrow Rebel corridor to the sea was widened to about 115 miles and contained the additional advantage of a good port at which Rebel supplies brought direct from Italy could be unloaded. And Loyalist Catalonia, jammed with 6,500,000 inhabitants and refugees, shrank to an area little bigger than that...