Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wangle newspaper space. Helping small-town symphonies with such chores is the task of the 13-year-old American Symphony Orchestra League, Inc. (headquarters: Charleston, W. Va.). The league has been taking a hard look at the music business and in the process, it has uncovered a mass of hitherto uncharted specifics. Item: community orchestras lose about 35% of their subscribers a year, hence must continually make new contacts. Item: it takes an average of 20 contacts to sell one new season ticket...
...building to be awarded to a Manhattan architectural firm which was also one of his company's clients, even though the usual practice is to award such contracts after competitive bidding. Another time, said the committee, Strobel personally went to Ferrenz & Taylor, a Manhattan architectural firm which had hitherto done no business with his firm or with the Government, and solicited an $18,000 construction contract for his engineering company. Strobel also testified that after joining GSA he went around to the Army Engineer Corps and pressed a claim for $7,500 still owed his company by the Government...
...Rabat, newspapers carrying the hitherto forbidden photograph of Sultan ben Youssef were being snatched from newsstands by happy purchasers, many of whom ostentatiously kissed the image of the Sultan. At week's end, as the Sultan was flown from exile in Madagascar to a Riviera villa, it did not require a great gift of prophecy to forecast his early return to Morocco...
...Harvard junior, who last week had access to the hitherto unpublished papers of Juan D. Penon's regime, revealed yesterday that the Peron government operated a vast police network which kept an iron hand on Argentine students and educators...
...lesser writers. Bulgarian-born Professor Artine Artinian of New York's Bard College, long a pro-De Maupassant agitator, has now brought out the first complete English-language edition of the master's works, with 65 stories purged from the old De Maupassant canon and with hitherto unknown or unpublished pieces added...