Antedatings in the Yale Book of Quotations -- 6 : First World War

Mon Nov 13 00:30:38 UTC 2006

First World War (OED 1931)

1914 Ernst Haeckel in _Indianapolis Star_ 20 Sept. 37/1 (Newspaperarchive)
There is no doubt that the course and character of the feared "European
war" ... will become the first world war in the full sense of the word.

Fred Shapiro

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