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...ingest the blood of the Savior through the medium of alcohol. . . . With so many various forms of culturally approved drinking, the amazing result is that we have so few persons emotionally dependent upon alcohol in some form. The teetotaler is, after all, equally as abnormal from the cultural standpoint as is the habitual drinker. . . . There is definite cultural relativity, and no universally valid generalization can be made as to what constitutes socially acceptable drunkenness...
Worse still from the standpoint of the British was another fact. In the daylight battles over London last September, attackers as well as defenders died in scores...
...Verdun attackers as well as defenders died in thousands. Such mutual slaughter captured men's imaginations and the head lines. Last week's battle was far more ominous from a military standpoint...
...plenty of room for improvement, especially in some southern rural districts where the people still live mainly on hog and corn. In a survey made from 1934 to 1937, says Dr. Cummings, "out of every hundred families throughout the country, only 23 enjoyed diets which, from the nutritional standpoint, were good; 51 had diets which were fair; and 26 followed poor diets...
...reasons, fall prey to the Nazis. As Hansen points out, "The Western Hemisphere contains within itself all the essential materials men need for enjoying a higher standard of living than any so far attained." Going to war now just to keep Hitler out of South America is from the standpoint of national defense totally unnecessary. There's more than one way to skin...