antedating of "Murphy's law" May, 1951

[Stephen Goranson]

 From the paper copy (of the journal; her book was 1953), above the title:
"$7.00 per volume Single numbers $4.00
QUARTERLY: Two volumes per year [sic]
May, 1951
Volume 43, Second Half
(Founded in 1925 by Carl Murchison)"

Stephen

Quoting Jesse Sheidlower <jester at PANIX.COM>:

> Stephen,
>
> This is from May 1951? The book was published in 1951, but where's
> the month date from?
>
> Jesse Sheidlower
> OED
>
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 02:25:45PM -0500, Stephen Goranson wrote:
>> Genetic Psychology Monographs: Child Behavior, Animal Behavior, and
>> Comparative
>> Psychology.
>> A Psychological Study of Physical Scientists, By Anne Roe, pp. 121-235
>> p.204
>> As for himself he realized that this was the inexorable working of
>> the second
>> law of the thermodynamics which stated Murphy's law "If anything can
>> go wrong
>> it will." I always liked Murphy's law, I was told that by an architect.
>>
>> Stephen Goranson
>> http://www.duke.edu/~goranson
>>
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