Word: hitherto
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Einstein, hitherto little known, became a global celebrity and was able to sell pictures of himself to journalists and send the money to a charity for war orphans. More than a hundred books were written about relativity within a year...
...Cambridge City Council race, hitherto ignored by college students, is taking on a whole new level of excitement this year as MIT senior Erik Snowberg has joined the pack of competing candidates...
This brings on another thought. Could it be that what is sometimes described as wooden or stiff or robotic about Gore--the quality that led me to describe him as "a manlike object"--is a reflection of some hitherto-unrevealed ethnic heritage? If so, maybe supporters who have grown tired of responding to comments about Gore's otherworldly stiffness by saying over and over again that he's good in small groups could switch to something like, "He's Norwegian, you know." On the other hand, what good did that do Mondale...
...amazing thing is that Lucas found an audience for his adolescent fantasies put to life, an audience bigger than any ever seen before by a movie studio. Suddenly, corporate mouths began to water. Lucas' space epic had brought to light a mass of consumers hitherto untouched (at least as a group) by American businesses: consumers who wanted to be treated like kids. Popular culture would never be the same...
...Harvard exists in a world where federal policy matters a great deal," Grogan says. "The country has failed hitherto to come to grips with the cost of medical school...