Fact-checking question from Freakonomics / Shaw quote

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Thanks for your excellent work, Hugo. Page 27 appears multiple times
in this volume, I believe. I did not quite understand your reasoning.
Why do you think that the page 27 with the February 18, 1933 date is
the same page as the page 27 with the quotation?

A search for "June 17" shows a page 31 with a date of June 17, 1933.
So there is almost certainly a page 27 with the same date. There is a
page 3 dated June 3, 1933.

http://books.google.com/books?id=lssaAQAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22June+17%22

Garson


On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 4:04 AM, Hugo <hugovk at gmail.com> wrote:
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> A slight antedating -- I've found a probable Saturday, February 18, 1933.
>
> It's a Google Books snippet, but the same page is dated. GB says it's
> "Commercial West, Volume 65", Commercial West, Co., from 1932, but
> more likely a later volume given the year.
>
> Page 27 has the exact same text as the May Reader's Digest:
>
> [Begin excerpt]
> George Bernard Shaw once addressed a company as follows: "I suppose
> that you seldom think. Few people think more than two or three times a
> year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking
> once or twice a week."
> [End excerpt]
>
> http://books.google.com/books?ei=TEnzUse0LIXp4wSF8IDACw&id=lssaAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22thinking+once+or+twice+a+week%22&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22international+reputation%22
>
> http://books.google.com/books?id=lssaAQAAMAAJ&q=%22thinking+once+or+twice+a+week%22&dq=%22thinking+once+or+twice+a+week%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=TEnzUse0LIXp4wSF8IDACw&redir_esc=y
>
> Here's the "Saturday, February 18, 1933" date at the top of page 27:
>
> http://books.google.com/books?ei=TEnzUse0LIXp4wSF8IDACw&id=lssaAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22thinking+once+or+twice+a+week%22&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22Life+insurance+1932+showing+is+good%22
>
> This volume doesn't seem to be in HathiTrust or Internet Archive.
>
> Hugo
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