Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...propulsion of the former as has been done experimentally at the Opel works in Germany. The core of his cogitations concerned the materials to be fused to attain speed in and out of Earth's atmosphere. He described two kinds of fuses-one using hydrogen, the other of alcohol-which he calculated would drive a plane 13,120 ft. per sec., or about 9,000 m. p. h., making the 240,000-mile trip in some 27 hours...
...everyone sensitive enough to experience the shock of useless death. The circumstances of the present outrage are such as to awaken even more intense sympathy. The facts that the victim was accompanied by his family, was a full fifteen miles from the border, and possessed not a trace of alcohol in the car, all combine to awaken popular recognition of an affair, the barest facts of which are hideous...
Swiss temperance organizations have lately been pressing their fight against distilled spirits. Charts showing the Evil Effects of Alcohol on the Human Stomach have been broadcast, big advertisements have been printed in the papers...
...Free instruction of school children, in public and private schools alike, on the Evils of the Drink Habit. All textbooks, irrespective of subject, to carry a lecture against the use of alcohol...
...event will precipitate a Franco-American war, but it is certain to cause worry in the breasts of students of literature who take their duties seriously. Will they resort to readeasies and readhouses for glances at the illicit pages of Voltaire? It is doubtful, for although the book, like alcohol, has been banned from entry into the United States, the book, like alcohol is still on sale in Boston...