Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation that introduced the 50-50 split for oil profits, now the pattern in most parts of the world, is pioneering another oil-derived benefit certain to catch the envious attention of petroleum-rich countries in the Middle East and elsewhere. Using oil income and hitherto wasted natural gas, Venezuela is building itself a $300 million basic industry in petrochemicals...
...Irvine H. Page (TIME. Oct. 31, 1955) reported a chemical victory that may lead to better understanding and treatment of high blood pressure. They have synthesized angiotonin II, the active form of the hormone angiotonin (discovered by Page in 1939), which sends blood pressure zooming when injected. Hitherto available only in minute amounts laboriously extracted from tons of animal glands, it can now be made in quantity for intensive research...
...assumed as almost certain that they were Essenes, an ascetic Jewish sect hitherto known chiefly from the accounts of Josephus and Philo. Much information about the Dead Sea covenanters is contained in the original scrolls (now in the Hebrew University just across the bristling boundary from the Jordanian Scrollers in the Israeli half of Jerusalem). Those first seven scrolls included, in addition to two versions of the book of Isaiah and a collection of apocryphal stories based on Genesis, four documents relating to the Dead Sea sect itself: 1) the Rule of the Community (also known as the Manual...
There was a further shock in store for Sukarno, who hitherto has enjoyed almost complete freedom from criticism. Though many army officers have participated in separatist revolts in East Indonesia and Sumatra (TIME. Dec. 31), Army Chief of Staff General Abdul Haris Nasution has been unswervingly loyal to Sukarno. Last week, in a blunt, private session with the President. Good Soldier Nasution told Sukarno flatly that taking Communists into the government could well lead to all-out civil war. A high-ranking Moslem politician was still more forthright. "If the Communists come in," he said, "we will take...
...Mount Vernon Museum put on display a long-out-of-sight miniature, claiming it to be the very one that Martha Washington sat for as her part of the bargain (of the three miniatures Peale painted of Martha between 1772 and 1791, only one, at Yale University, had hitherto been known)'. Mount Vernon's small, 1⅛-in.-by-1½-in. oval likeness framed in a gold pendant (see cut) was acquired from G. Freeland Peter Jr. of Charlottesville, Va., a direct descendant of Martha Custis Washington. Tradition has it that Washington actually wore the pendant during...