Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nothing. ... It had all come to him, the evanescence of everything, its slippery, protean changefulness. Everything was alive, and everything was nothing, in so far as its seeming reality was concerned. And yet everything was everything but still capable of being undermined, changed, improved, or come at in some hitherto undreamed-of-way-even by so humble a creature as himself, an inventor-and used as a chained force, if only one knew how. ... He had become conscious of anterior as well as ulterior forces and immensities and fathomless wells of wisdom and energy, and had enslaved a minute portion...
...Rose's hitherto unchallenged supremacy in the field of water extravaganzas is gravely threatened by the Northamptonites. Feature event of the evening will be the finale, which will take place with the auditorium dark as 35 girls, with lights attached to their anatomy at strategic points, perform intricate water ballet figures...
Century-Fox) is a dragging, uninspired trifle in fancy dress about "women's rights" in the late igth Century. The plot consists of one pale joke (in the 18705, typists seem to have been referred to as "typewriters"). It isn't much fun - despite the Technicolor, some hitherto unpublished Gershwin tunes. Dick Haymes's pleasant baritone, and Betty Grable's incomparable pin-up legs...
...these covered his illegal entries and thefts in College rooms, and one was a recognition of hitherto unpublicized successes in Newton...
...children, there is a new nursery, too. It stands in a hitherto vacant lot between Francis Street and Divinity Avenue, facing Kirkland Street. And to house the IBM calculator presented to the University there is a now but on Jarvis Street...