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October 4th 04, 07:09 PM
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Obscure dictionary trivia
In message , Mark Brader
writes Paul Terry: What is the OED's first illustrative reference to "tube shelter"? In the Supplement, it's from "Darkness Falls from the Air", a 1942 novel by Nigel Balchin. "We went... by tube... I wanted to see how the tube shelter business was working out." The expression was in use long before the Bethnal Green disaster. I don't know if the above has been "antedated", as they say, in the OED2 or the online edition. Well, Henry Moore's famous "Grey tube shelter" dates from 1940 - I *think* the title is contemporary, but am not su http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2001/moore/fig04.htm -- Paul Terry |
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