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The earliest US example I’ve found so far is Seattle Daily Times 13 Oct 1946, in a discussion of teaching materials used in public schools. It also refers to a locally-producef series of three texts, titled “Usage Guide for Language Arts”
Thanks, Paul! This antedates the OED by five years.