Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alcohol roused the noisiest discussion. "The one fact that hits back at the legislation [on alcohol] is the fundamental physiological law, as demonstrated by physiological chemistry, that alcohol is a normal constituent of the brain tissue," stated Dr. Charles Alfred Lee Reed, University of Cincinnati professor emeritus of gynecology and onetime (1900-1901) president of the American Medical Association. He went on: "When this supply runs low there is a natural demand for alcohol as such." His declaration was reply to two papers on the subject, which had just been presented...
...Brock-Schlee reception committee in the interest of American aviation to view the stein-clicking proclivities of Messrs. Brock and Schlee who no doubt thoroughly enjoy beer-drinking in jurisdictions where it is not a crime. If an American representative abroad may not be permitted in the vicinity of alcoholic beverages nor witness drinking it would be necessary to withdraw all of our representatives, pending international prohibition, for alcohol and drinking are all about them and they should be removed from contamination. In going about Munich it would be necessary for Consul General Curtis to do a perpetual zigzag...
...soon as may be, a successor to the late Mr. Wheeler as high-salaried, legalistic manipulator of funds and politicians, will be chosen. In the meantime, the League announced last week, double duty will be done by Dr. F. Scott McBride, whose functions hitherto have been to berate alcohol at conventions of people who agree with him that it is sinful, and to issue reports telling how the League gets...
...valorem (that is, upon the U. S. valuation), silk wearing apparel, average of 60%; walnuts (France exported $4,861,000 worth to the U. S. last year) 4¢ per pound unshelled, 12¢ shelled; precious and semiprecious stones (not including pearls), 10% ad valerem on uncut stones; perfumes containing alcohol 75% ad valorem plus 40¢ a pound; perfumes not containing alcohol 75% ad valorem; soaps and soap preparations from 15% to 30% ad valorem. These are the chief French exports...
...pounds pressure shattered the bones of cadavers, although bones of living patients can stand greater battering without splitting untowardly. The chief problem in perfecting the device was to get the power air sterile enough for the operating room. That Surgeon-Inventor Pitkin accomplished by passing the air through an alcohol filter...