[Ads-l] Antedating of "dropout" n.

[Steven Losie]

Dropout (n.2) (OED3, 1930)

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Whoever you are, whether your purse is fat or flat, whether you work day or
night, six hours a day or sixteen, whether college graduate or grammar
school drop-out:

The opportunity to acquire a good, thorough, practical business education
is hereby brought within your easy grasp.
[end quote]
[Advertisement], Spokane Daily Chronicle, 5 Sep 1919, p.25, col.3 (
newspapers.com)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/562247878/?match=1&terms=%22school%20dropout%22

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An effort was made to trace all high school drop-outs over a period of
years to discover what kind of further schooling, if any, they had secured,
and what kind of occupations engage them at present.
[end quote]
"Summarize Lawrence School Needs In Report of Recent School Survey",
Lawrence (Kansas) Daily Journal-World, 5 Jan 1921, p.2, col.4 (
newspapers.com)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/59413348/?match=1&terms=%22school%20dropouts%22

[begin quote]
If there is anything more discouraging to those who are interested in the
school progress of a community than non-attendance by all those of school
age, it is the mid-term and late-term "drop-outs".
[end quote]
The Pupil and the "Drop-Out" Germ, Kentwood (Louisiana) Commercial, 2 Sep
1926, p.2, col.1 (newspapers.com)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/851206886/?match=1&terms=dropouts

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