[Ads-l] Antedating of "Skyscraper"

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Wed Apr 12 02:15:37 UTC 2017


On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 10:08 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>
wrote:

> Sky Scraper Down Town


They were once each written as two words?

Youneverknow.
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-Wilson
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