Antedating of "Accident-Proneness"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Thu Dec 30 16:21:18 UTC 2010


accident-proneness (OED 1926)

1925 Eric Farmer in Industrial Fatigue Research Board _Annual Report, 1924_ 43  (heading) The method of grouping by differential tests in relation to accident proneness.


Fred Shapiro

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