Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sureseaters had opened in San Diego and Salt Lake City. Others were planned in Denver, Seattle, Portland, Tacoma. Los Angeles, which had gotten five new sureseaters in twelve months, would soon get one more which has hitherto specialized in westerns...
...another speech, on the anniversary of V-J day, Mayor Chen Yi revealed a striking historical fact, hitherto known only to some of the more eager Communist scholars. Said he: "On this day, four years ago, Soviet Russia defeated Japan and brought the second World War to a conclusion...
...team of scholars under Professor Frederick A. Pottle (Yale '21) had already begun the job of sorting and editing. Eventually there will probably be a new Life of Johnson and a definitive biography of Boswell, together with volumes of correspondence and hitherto unknown poems by Johnson, and essays by Reynolds, which are included in the Isham collection. Scholars guessed that those books would be only the beginning. From now on, it seemed, no 18th Century scholar would be up on his subject unless he had spent some time at Yale...
...government had just announced that trade debts to U.S. banks, once over $300 million, had been cut to half that figure, would henceforth be systematically reduced by applying against the debt one-fifth of the dollars the U.S. pays for Argentine goods. To stimulate U.S. trade, imports & exports hitherto state-traded would be allowed to revert to private hands. Most important of all, Argentina would sell its crop surpluses at going world prices, instead of charging all that the traffic would bear. Jim Bruce felt that his mission had begun to bear fruit...
...place, this was Eisenhower's story, and his account had to be reproduced faithfully in pictures. Secondly, MOT found itself overwhelmed with riches. The U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard; the British War Office and Ministry of Information; the National Film Board of Canada and other hitherto inaccessible sources suddenly made 165,000,000 feet of restricted war-film available for the project. Fortunately, MOT had the staff (120) and the know-how to cull and present...