Word: hitherto
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...swollen, shiny, discolored and stiff. The stiffness comes from thickening of the fibrous layer just below the skin down the middle of the palm. It may pull the fingers together and sometimes also downward. Skin thickening and stiffness of this type may be the signs of a previous and hitherto-undetected coronary occlusion...
Other accounts have been written of Strachey, author of Eminent Victorians, but all of them, says Rees, have omitted his sexual preference- an ardent, lifelong homosexuality. The 1,229-page, two-volume biography by Michael Holroyd is long enough-and honest enough-to include much of Strachey's hitherto unpublished correspondence with John Maynard Keynes, a contemporary of his at Cambridge. The letters consist mostly of outpourings of enthusiasm for comely young men, for whose favors Strachey and Keynes strenuously competed. "It was a kind of intricate ballet of the affections," writes Rees, "in which Keynes, ruthless, serpentine...
Though scarcely typical, the case of the ex-convict is no freak. Of the 16,627 people General Motors has hired for its 23 Detroit-area plants since last summer's riots, 39% are Negroes; and hundreds of the newcomers would hitherto have been classified as unemployable. Even before last week's presidential riot commission report (see THE NATION) called on private industry to create at least 1,000,000 new jobs for ghetto dwellers, a rising number of businessmen were striving toward that...
...wrongdoing than of illness. Even more recently physicians have begun to speak of persons who "have alcoholism," much as others might be described as "having tuberculosis." Very much as in the case of automobile accidents, society appears to be verging toward a redefinition of this issue: what has hitherto been seen as a problem of public order is increasingly being defined as one of public health. Nor surprisingly, the relationship between these two public health problems is being increasingly perceived...
Despite the horror, Holocaust documents a hitherto unheralded record of resistance, even beyond the suicidal stand in the Warsaw ghetto and the sporadic concentration-camp rebellions. Jews made up 20% of the French Resistance and 30% of a Free Polish Army (in which officers and men often rivaled the Germans in their savage anti-Semitism). All through Nazi-occupied territory, Jews operated secret schools and underground newspapers. Young Boy Scouts and volunteer paratroopers from Palestine carried out rescue missions that saved thousands. Bands of Jewish fighters roamed the dense forests of Russia and Poland, though their mortality rate often reached...