Another [not] suspect quote: Ira Hayes

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Excellent work, Joel. After Garson alerted me to the ref., I still failed to
> find the quote in ProQuest. Then I ran a test with "Pacific" and "May 1 -
> September 1, 1945," and learned that the word had never appeared in the BG
> between those dates.  "Marines" and "Japanese" gave similar results.
>
> Thus there is at least one huge gap in ProQuest's BG collection.
> Yet another pitfall of electronic research.

The version of Proquest I'm accessing claims to have The Boston Globe
from 1872 to 1979, but browsing the issues reveals a gap between 1928
and 1958.

--bgz

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