Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fleming, is a restrained tale of violence and race hatred that has no direct message. Prejudice and hate press harder and harder on Berry, the Negro Army sergeant, until he "flies apart like the works of an over wound clock." This is a real short story, so seldom seen hitherto around here, with real characters in real situations...
Members of the half-dozen leftist groups which have hitherto dominated University politics, did not seem, however, to share Staples' optimism for the success of the HYRC. When questioned, they rubbed their chins and mused skeptically. "We wonder just how many of these men will be active members and how many will be merely deadwood...
George Walker '51 finally came to the rescue of his drenched entry mates with the hitherto unthought of idea of turning off the sprinkler system from the wall valve...
...Nobles," where sloppy entrances spoiled an otherwise well-sung piece. Bach's "Happy Lovers," victim of an uninspired performance in Sanders, again suffered from a lack of spirit until the final bars. The last selection, a medley of 'Cliffe songs, proved the comedy fare of the evening, as several hitherto unsung gems brought down the house...
...book appeared concurrently with Brooks's wholesale excommunication of modern writers as "defeatists" and "fatalists." Coming from a critic who had hitherto bewailed America's indifference to her contemporary writers, Brooks's charges seemed a betrayal. The little magazines gave him a merciless drubbing, and Critic Edmund Wilson caustically rapped The Flowering for "chortling, beaming and crooning in a manner little short of rapturous over those same American household classics ... whose deficiencies . . . he had [previously] so unflinchingly brought to our notice...