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1840 Sir N. C. Tindal in Manning & Granger Reports I. 48 There was no one but the plaintiff to whom the ‘U’ in the document [an IOU] could be applied.

1862 T. Hardy Let. 3 Nov. (1978) I. 2 I wish you wd tell me how u.r. when u. write.

1923 Dial. Notes 5 231 Call Tel-U-Where for our nearest distributor... Fits-U Eyeglasses. U All Kno After Dinner Mints. Uneeda Biscuit.

1924 Trade Marks Jrnl. 20 Aug. 1898 Put-u-up... Settees convertible into bedsteads. Greaves & Thomas,..London,..manufacturers.

1929 Amer. Speech 5 24 U-Bet-U It's Good Candy.

1929 Amer. Speech 5 24 U Drive It (cars for hire),..Shine While U Wait, Hats Cleaned While U Wait,..Motor Boats to Rent—U Drive,..Did U Eat? (card in window of restaurant).

1951 Washington Yellow Pages Classified Telephone Directory (Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co.) Nov. 846/3 Rent a ‘U-Haul Co.’ trailer. You can rent here and leave in other major cities.

1963 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 26 Feb. tm154/2 Arcoa Inc., Portland, Oreg... U-Haul. For Rental of Trucks and Automobile Freight Trailers. First use Oct. 15, 1945.

1970 S. Sanchez in S. Henderson Understanding New Black Poetry (1973) 275 U blew away our passsst.

1971 Black World June 48 That scag Reefers Wine That send u spinnen into witeness.

1972 Guardian 11 July 10/6 The..catalogue essay..is a masterpiece of myth-making, art history while-u-wait.

1974 R. M. Pirsig Zen & Art of Motorcycle Maintenance i. iv. 48 It would probably be normal about this time to wonder what sort of U-Haul trailer all this is in.

1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 27 June 2- d/6 Roberts lost his gas station and is residing in a U-Haul propped on cinder blocks.

1980 ‘D. Shannon’ Felony File viii. 193 I had the hell of a time getting hold of a U-Haul truck.

1981 M. C. Smith Gorky Park iii. iv. 356 Painted everywhere were signs: NO TRESPASSING THIS MEANS U and BEWARE OF DOGS.