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[Fred Shapiro]

On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:

> "back to square one"  OED has 1960
>
> [review of] _The American Economy, 1860- 1940_, review written by E. M.
> Hugh-Jones, The Economic Journal, Vol. 62, No. 246 (Jun., 1952), pp. 411
> col 1.

I posted this here in June.

Fred Shapiro


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