[Ads-l] Still Further Antedating of Modern Sense of "Hispanic"

[Shapiro, Fred]

Hispanic (OED, adj. 2., 1974)

1910 C. Reginald Enock, _The Great Pacific Coast_ 308  An Anglo-American city would have built a railway, ot at leat a road for vehicles, half a century ago, but the Hispanic people love not such engineering efforts, and, moreover, they are poor.

Fred Shapiro

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