*correction* "Murphy's Law" 1943, not

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>
> Another problem with GB:  sometimes the cite's there and sometimes it isn't.
> About fifteen minutes ago I saw in pdf an example of "zorch" in Life
> magazine from 1953.  Fourteen minutes later it was unrecoverable.

Displays for me just fine:

http://books.google.com/books?id=ZEIEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA141


--Ben Zimmer

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