antedating of "Murphy's law" May, 1951

[Jesse Sheidlower]

Thanks very much.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 02:37:08PM -0500, Stephen Goranson wrote:
> 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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