Word: alcohols
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Briefly, graduate students and fellows of Yale have suddenly, and without warning or precedent, been forbidden to use alcohol from the laboratories for the purpose of beverages, now and forever more. After all, this is rather a tough situation down at Yale. They have always been lead to believe that they could count on those laboratories. No wonder they think it's a sin and a shameful waste. Harvard men may even be a little worried themselves, all except those who are smart enough to realize that forewarned is forearmed, and, according to a current rumor, intend to go down...
...Wood Alcohol or any form of methylated alcohol was barred by the Cabinet from being sold in Italy as a drink or introduced into any cosmetic or medicinal specialty...
...announced in the Yale News that a tosspot would have to down two litres (one-half gal.) of 4% beer every hour to become intoxicated. "General experience shows," amended Pedagog Yandell, "that few persons care to drink two litres in an hour. Under my definition [that 80 cc. of alcohol can be absorbed in the system in one hour], therefore, beer containing 3% or 4% of alcohol by volume is not intoxicating." "A cordial or liqueur," he continued, "such as curagao or benedictine, although it may contain 50% of alcohol, is not intoxicating, for in common practice such beverages...
...Even though facts show that alcohol is both a food and poison, it is a poison that steadily progresses. In cases of pneumonia alcoholics are almost surely doomed, and no one is immune from pneumonia. The deaths after prohibition have decreased from 80 percent to 35 percent. In cases of tuberculosis the decrease is just as marked, and deaths from cirrhosis of the liver went down one-third after the prohibition...
...years have passed, the work in our shops has become finer and has called for an increasing amount of ... fine coordination between hand and brain. . . . 'Any use of alcohol at all seems to destroy that exact coordination. . . . We rarely have to discharge the drinkers. They discharge themselves?a man will not stick at a job on which he is falling down...