Antedating of "Karate"

[Sam Clements]

That same AP story ran a week earlier.
...go instead -of just practicing. The KARATE stamp their bare feet on the
cold.....Japanese jni jiUu training garments (killed KARATE men wear a
"Bell' attesting their.....students eagerly every bruCal movyin the KARATE V
inch varied I thls 'week'Tnelr vote.....alr and vilent kicks in the. groin.
KARATE men are taught how to deliver sudden..
Williamsport, Pennsylvania   Monday, March 10, 1947  574 k
Sam

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From: "Fred Shapiro" <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
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Subject: Antedating of "Karate"


> karate (OED 1955)
>
> 1947 _Wash. Post_ 16 Mar. M11 (ProQuest)  Regardless of what the
> occupation chiefs say about having cut out all the barbarian Japanese
> sports, the students at Waseda University are still being taught how to
> break arms, crack necks and gouge eyes.  It's a combination of boxing,
> wrestling and kicking called karate.
>
> Fred Shapiro
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