[Ads-l] Antedating of "Think Tank"

[Shapiro, Fred]

think tank (OED, 2.a., 1958 [June])

1958 San Francisco Chronicle 23 Mar. 6/5 (Newspapers.com)

Scholars all, they are Fellows of a new intellectual institution called The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.  The Fellows, with less reverence, call it variously "the Think Tank," or "the Monastery," or use the Center's initials to dub it "the Casbah."

Fred Shapiro

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