[Ads-l] Antedating of "Inner City"

[Shapiro, Fred]

inner city (OED 1968)

1953 Sun (Baltimore) 22 Jan. 30/6 (Newspapers.com)

The Park Board proposal: expanded centers at six "inner city" schools; thirty small play lots in slum or marginal areas.

Fred Shapiro

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