Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Undeterred, Chicago's Milton Reynolds, manufacturer of ballpoint pens (". . . writes high in the stratosphere . . ."), together with the Boston Museum of Science, arranged an expedition that would explore the hitherto entirely unexplored Amne Machin range. Reynolds was out to discover the world's highest mountain (which some believe may be located in the Amne Machin), expressed the hope that a grateful China would name it after...
...make a most egregious error...It is between the industrial plant and society that there is the greatest potential conflict...An expanding economy, increased productivity, and widespread and full distribution of goods are essential if we are to raise the real income of our people to levels hitherto undreamed . . . Communism was not conceived as an answer to this problem. Communism is essentially a political idea, not a scientific blueprint for a machine...
...menacing a covered wagon. A lot of the hallooing after Harry Truman's scalp came from men who simply enjoyed listening to the echo, but last week the President heard one statement which hurt. Alabama's Senator John J. Sparkman, former Democratic whip of the House, and hitherto an ardent Truman supporter, demanded that the President remove himself as a candidate...
...Hotel Royal Monceau, to work out controlling statutes for ERP, hoped to be finished in three weeks. In Stockholm's Kanslihuset (meaning Chancellery), which is aptly surrounded by weeping willows, the Prime Ministers of Sweden, Norway and Denmark met to confer on the Communist threat their countries face. Hitherto, they had carefully avoided antagonizing the Reds; last week Sweden's Social Democratic Premier Tage Erlanger said: "Communism . . . has placed itself outside the democratic community. The fight against Communism . . . will become part of the guarding of liberty and independence in Sweden...
Milton Reynolds, Chicago's high-flying penmaker, and globe-circling Bill Odom took off from Honolulu. The only purpose of their trip, they said, was to Look for a hitherto undiscovered world's tallest mountain, somewhere near the headwaters of the Yangtze. For the benefit of Chinese Communists, they added firmly that they were not looking for uranium...