Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...City Museum of Sundsvall, center of the timber industry, keeps the stuffed remnants of the only wild "skvader" hitherto known to have been caught. The skvader has a hare's head and legs (with the typical capercailzie red patch over the eyes), and the wings and hind body of a capercailzie. . . . Very little is known about the habits of the skvader. Owing to the great wing loading, its flyability is probably poor, if any. The taxidermist, who prepared it, died without revealing the place where he had caught the unique specimen. No zoologist has been able...
...leave sopranos out of their chorales in order that their genius might be reserved for masculine choirs in a men's college. The mixed group of 35 which has sung for Memorial Church services for three years has been able to bring with it a selection of religious music hitherto unheard in the Yard...
Also stressed by the committee was the fact that even at present there is no uniform closing times for the Houses. Despite the closing hour of 7 o'clock set by the Parietal Regulations a wide area of discretion has hitherto been left to the individual House Master, Permission has often been extended to later nights when women were allowed in the dining halls, holidays, and other special occasions...
...failure of modern novelists since, and including, James Joyce is one of presumption and exorbitance. They are not content with the artificial figures which hitherto passed so gracefully as men and women. They try to represent the whole human mind and soul and yet omit its determining character-that of being God's creature with a defined purpose...
...Judas, it was whispered, couldn't find a roomer at any price; and St. John, who was the handsomest of the Apostles, finally eloped to the U.S. with a rich American widow). The second lesson in perspective came through World War I, in which Private Schoenberner, who had hitherto been crazy about horses, was given the job of grooming them. "It is amazing how different a horse looks if seen from above, from the saddle, or from below, when you are standing ... up to the ankles in manure, half asphyxiated by the stench...