Antedating of "Windy City" & databases

[Fred Shapiro]

On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:

> If you read through to the description Barry copied from the Proquest
> site, you'll see that their coverage of the Courant extends from the
> 18th century all the way to the late 20th. I know that some university
> libraries (like Columbia) have begun to offer the full run of the
> Courant as part of their Proquest HNP subscription.

I have access to the Hartford Courant Historical on ProQuest.  From
extensive searching I would say it is worthless terminologically.

Fred


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