Word: alcohol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Particularly at a winter sports carnival, ostensibly to glorify the Healthy Body and Soul, is the bottle an unwanted visitor. As Professor Hisaw maintains, "In any display of athletic prowess, the neural pathways must be kept clear from the effects of alcohol." An examination of complete skiing records shows that no skiing championship has ever been won by an intoxicated...
...shaving brush which furnishes its own hot water from a miniature alcohol-burning boiler in the handle...
...Lagrange, Ohio local option election, voters approved all liquor containing 6% or more alcohol, voted down 3.2 beer...
...Wilfred Bloomberg, instructor in neurology at the Medical School, has developed a new approach to the curing of alcoholism through the use of the drug benzedrine, which acts as a substitute for alcohol while the personality defect that caused the patient to become addicted to drink is corrected...
Calling all alcoholism "a disease", Bloomberg says benzedrine removes the craving for alcohol by giving the patient the effect he desires without being as harmful as alcohol. He warns, however, that its uses can be dangerous and that it should be administered only under a physician's supervision...