Antedating of "Brainwashing"

[Wilson Gray]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 9:42 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>
wrote:

> "brain washing" meant publicly confessing one's faults


If that's what it meant, is "*brain* washing," then. a literal translation
of the words and not a translation of the sense?

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-Wilson
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