Further Antedating of "Frisbee"

[W Brewer]

Never mind, I remember now.


On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 3:09 AM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:

> <<<bunny craze of '52>>>???  Don't leave us hanging!
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> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 3:00 AM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>wrote:
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>> Subject:      Further Antedating of "Frisbee"
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>> frisbee (OED 1957)
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>> 1954 _The Gold Bug_ (Western Maryland College student newspaper,
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>> at http://hoover.mcdaniel.edu/archives/Newspapers/TheGoldBug1954-55.pdf)
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>> Nov. 3/2  WMC sports enthusiasts are always turning up with something
>> new. =
>>  But this time they've outdone themselves.  They've come up with a new
>> type=
>>  of game called Frisby.  Supposedly the greatest event to hit the campus
>> si=
>> nce the bunny craze of '52, Frisby is not as new as it appears but is in
>> re=
>> ality a comer from Merry Old England.  ... Just how Frisby found its way
>> to=
>>  the Hill is a mystery, but rumors have it that a certain freshman in
>> Alber=
>> t Norman Ward is responsible. ... For the information of Johns Hopkins,
>> Har=
>> vard, Yale, Princeton and other ancient schools, we are the first and
>> only =
>> college in the U.S. to play this game. ...Waiters in the dinning [sic]
>> hall=
>>  have started a frisby [sic] tournament.
>>
>> Fred Shapiro
>> Editor
>> YALE BOOK OF QUOTATIONS (Yale University Press)
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