Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Public Health Service's Center for Disease Control reports new evidence that Amanita phalloides may not be as uncommon in the New World as hitherto believed. For example, in October two people died of mushroom poisoning-a 37-year-old Martha's Vineyard resident who collected Amanita phalloides in his backyard and a 70-year-old Bronx man who picked the mushrooms in a New York park and ate them...
Among the major beneficiaries of O.T.C.s will be people who live in heartland areas that have hitherto had few or no direct flights overseas. A scheduled flight from Omaha to Trinidad, for example, can take 16 hours, with stopovers in Chicago, Miami, San Juan, Kingston and often Barbados. An O.T.C. trip cuts it to four hours-in addition to the savings in cash. Milwaukee's Odyssey Travel is chartering Pan Am flights nonstop to the Caribbean from Des Moines, Indianapolis, St. Louis and other Midwestern cities. Marvin Smith, vice president of Boston's American International Travel Service...
...plans sounded brilliant. By turning off hitherto unknown heating valves during vacation and creating cold zones throughout the House system, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences could save perhaps $150,000 in heating bills...
...worlds hitherto closed to women are opening. Increasingly, women are seen attending business conventions, sometimes with their husbands?when the spouse is invited. More and more women are becoming junior executives and sales representatives, positions that often lead to the top; roughly 12% of Xerox's traveling sales
...concern was that the 2,080-lb. bell would be damaged beyond the celebrated crack that opened in 1835 while the bell was tolling for the funeral procession of Chief Justice John Marshall. Eastman Kodak made several radiographs (or giant X rays) of the bell that revealed some hitherto unknown interior cracks, but none serious enough to cause future damage. And so the bell, commissioned in 1751, will be seen-if not heard-by millions of Americans as the nation begins its third century...