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Word: drunkennessâ (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1929-1929
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...judges know of this quantitative test. They depend upon the layman's crude idea of drunkenness???can the accused walk a straight line, can he stand on one leg, can he clearly enunciate "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers." Perhaps a medico-legal diagnosis of just what does constitute drunkenness may evolve for the world from clinical investigations which Belgium's Societe de medecine legale now has under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drunkenness | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

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