More early "Murphy-ish" citations (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

Classification:  UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE



_The Friendly Arctic: The Story of Five Years in Polar Regions_ By
Vilhjalmur Stefansson  NY: MacMillan 1921. page 594

"It seemed, too, that everything that could possibly go wrong did go
wrong and that every chance was decicded against us." [Google books full
view]

_Inside Europe_ By John Gunther NY: Harper, 1938 p. 330
"Everything that could possibly go wrong went wrong."  [Goggle Books
Snippet View -- check against hard copy]

_The Television Program: Its Direction and Production_ By Edward
Stasheff, Rudy Bretz New York: Hill and Wang, 1962 p. 175
"By the Law of Inverse Probabilities, which states that anything that
can possibly go wrong will, . . ." [Goggle Books Snippet View -- check
against hard copy]

_The Butcher; the ascent of Yerupaja_ by John Sack;  New York: Rinehart,
1952.  p. 13
"It goes like this: anything that can possibly go wrong, does. "
[Goggle Books Snippet View -- check against hard copy.  The phrase
"possibly go wrong" appears 5 times in the book; most are not visible
with Google books]

_The Sackbut_ v.1:6-9 (1920/21)p. 351
"If they can possibly go wrong you can be sure they will." [Goggle Books
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_Writing and Producing the Radio Play_ By Carl Alfred Buss [Thesis].
Madison, WI:  Univ of WI, 1933 p. 5.
"It always seems that on my busiest days everything that can possibly go
wrong does."  [Goggle Books Snippet View -- check against hard copy]

_The Beloved Woman_ By Kathleen Thompson Norris.  Garden City, NY:
Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921.  p. 190
"She was alert, serious, authoritative; her manner expressed an anxious
certainty that everything that could possibly go wrong was about to do
so." [Google books full view]
Classification:  UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE

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