Word: hitherto
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...real reason the Pentagon unveiled the hitherto secret F-117A Stealth fighter last week was not to show off a nifty new plane or demonstrate military glasnost. It was part of a campaign to persuade Congress and the public to build another, far more expensive, radar-evading Stealth plane: the B-2 bomber. But while the Air Force purchased 59 Stealth fighters for a total cost of $6.26 billion, it wants to buy 132 Stealth bombers for a staggering ^ $72 billion. Some critics say the B-2 program could actually cost more than twice that...
Crimson reporters can attest to the great reluctance that I have hitherto shown to add fuel to the dispute between Sociology and Social Studies. But Acting Sociology Department Chair Orlando Patterson's "commentary" does suggest that a few words--half in anger, half wracked with laughter--from a teacher with a foot in both camps may cast light on some of the issues involved...
...music and Satanism, as Cardinal O'Connor contended? Father Rento, the New Jersey expert, does not make such a claim. But he does provide carefully couched support for O'Connor's concern. Music, says the priest, "is one of the factors helping to create a climate in which the hitherto unthinkable becomes thinkable...
...absorbed Humboldt's ideas, acted on them and gave them pictorial form. In a sense he did indeed become, as the New York Times announced in 1863, "the artistic Humboldt of the New World," come to fulfill Humboldt's prophecy that "landscape painting will flourish with a new and hitherto unknown brilliancy when artists . . . shall be enabled, in the interior of continents, in the humid valleys of the tropical world, to seize with genuine freshness . . . on the true image of the varied forms of nature...