Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Appleton, Wisc.--Despite its location in the midst of Wisconsin farmland Lawrence College is definitely not Godforsaken. Rather, it is His adversary who seems to have passed the college by, for with stringent rules against alcohol and automobiles, and a required course in religion, Lawrence is, in the words of one professor, "a bothed of morality...
...shot off a telling reply to television. "Third-dementia," the newest entertainment craze, was luring crowds back to the movies in such numbers as Hollywood had not seen since the end of World War II. By the millions they came, to peer through an eye-straining haze of alcohol and iodine (the basic ingredients of the H Polarizer) at a simple optical illusion whose principle was known to Euclid and whose practice put grandfather to sleep on Sunday afternoons...
...filled with denunciations and counter-denunciations. Result: Abel Vandamme, a rich textile manufacturer living in a castle near Lille, and accused of being the "brain" of a gang of brandy siphoners, went on trial with 26 others in Hazebrouck last week for what French police grandly called the biggest alcohol fraud in French history...
...rubber boom, when "every ton of rubber gathered cost a human life." One economical German farmer personally murdered more than 40 Indian slaves in a batch, simply because they were too sick to work. When the Indians murdered a white man, his brother set out some tins of poisoned alcohol in a jungle clearing for bait, and the next day surveyed his catch: 80 dead Indians. Fawcett knew of a sick Englishman who, because he lay still, was assumed by the Indians to be dead; having got this idea in their heads, they decided that his groans were those...
Last week in the British Medical Journal, Dr. Victor P. Wordsworth reported that B-6 can also cure a much more common complaint: an overdose of alcohol. "A typical case," wrote Wordsworth, "was a woman of 45, brought in singing, swearing and staggering." She was given a 100-mg. hypodermic shot of B6. "The results were far more dramatic than I anticipated . . . Three minutes [later] she became quiet, apologized for the trouble she had caused us, and asserted she felt quite sober. She was able to walk across the room perfectly steadily...