Immovable Object (1946); Tennis Bum; Mousetrap: Cliffhanger

[Fred Shapiro]

On Fri, 5 Oct 2001 Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

> IMMOVABLE OBJECT (continued)
>
>    "An immovable object" was the header of a Red Smith column earlier
> in 1946.  These breakers are from Views of Sport by Red Smith, NEW
> YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, 10 November 1946, section 3, pg. 2, col. 5:
>
> _The Irresistible Force_
> (...)
> _...and the Immovable Object_

JSTOR pulls up "the hypothetical collison of an irresistible force with an
immovable object" from International Journal of Ethics 37: 208 (1927).

Fred Shapiro


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