Barry Popik in Tomorrow's Times

[Fred Shapiro]

Tomorrow's "On Language" column by William Safire in the New York Times
Magazine mentions Barry Popik's discovery of the earliest known usage of
the military sense of "spider hole."  Congratulations to Barry!

Fred Shapiro


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