Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before and after he left engineering, is described in relation to Prohibition as follows: All his mature life until the War he had the Continental attitude toward intoxicants?enjoyed them, knew how to handle them, seldom gave them a thought. When the U. S. adopted Prohibition, he stopped using alcohol. He was not particularly glad to do so.* But he was going into public life, wanted a clear record, and was ready to believe that abolition of alcohol would make for social uplift. The slow arrival of that uplift has not discouraged Idealist Hoover about its ultimate arrival. The sharp...
Russell Richards Brown, announced he will resign as president of United States Industrial Alcohol Co. on April...
...alcohol by weight equals about 3.8% by volume...
They have seen anesthetics making the water-clear nerve cells become first cloudy, then coagulated like the white of a hard-boiled egg. When the anesthetic wears off, the nerve cells resume their original water-clearness. Alcohol affects the nerves similarly. So do narcotics...
...when nerves are drugged repeatedly they lose their recuperative powers. Increasingly large bits of the coagulation remain. Those bits cause a nervous irritation which only more of the drug (alcohol, narcotics) can allay?explanation of the addict's craving...