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... American Atheist Society, but he got through ...   12&12 p.26, Step Two
So did a friend of mine who was a one-time vice-president of the American Atheist Society, but he got through with room to spare."


2.
... American business man had ability, good sense, ...   BB p.26, There Is A Solution   Go to page 26 in the Big Book
A certain American business man had ability, good sense, and high character.


3.
... American Journal of Psychiatry for November 1949.   BB p.570(572), Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.   Display entire Appendix III
This was done, and the paper was printed in the American Journal of Psychiatry for November 1949.


4.
... American Medical Association in 1946, over the ...   BB p.570(572), Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.   Display entire Appendix III
Dr. W. W. Bauer, broadcasting under the auspices of The American Medical Association in 1946, over the NBC network, said, in part: "Alcoholics Anonymous are no crusaders; not a temperance society.


5.
... American newspapers were afraid to print an ...   BB p.51, We Agnostics   Go to page 51 in the Big Book
Even in the present century, American newspapers were afraid to print an account of the Wright brothers' first successful flight at Kitty Hawk.


6.
... American Psychiatric Association requested, in 1949, that ...   BB p.570(572), Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.   Display entire Appendix III
The American Psychiatric Association requested, in 1949, that a paper be prepared by one of the older members of Alcoholics Anonymous to be read at the Association's annual meeting of that year.


7.
... American psychiatrists.   BB p.26, There Is A Solution   Go to page 26 in the Big Book
He had consulted the best known American psychiatrists.


8.
... American psychologist, William James, in his book ...   BB p.28, There Is A Solution   Go to page 28 in the Big Book
The distinguished American psychologist, William James, in his book "Varieties of Religious Experience," indicates a multitude of ways in which men have discovered God.


9.
... American Public Health Association presents a Lasker ...   BB p.571(573), Appendix IV, The Lasker Award   Display entire Appendix IV
"The American Public Health Association presents a Lasker Group Award for 1951 to Alcoholics Anonymous in recognition of its unique and highly successful approach to that age-old public health and social problem, alcoholism ... In emphasizing alcoholism as an illness, the social stigma associated with this condition is being blotted out ... Historians may one day recognize Alcoholics Anonymous to have been a great venture in social pioneering which forged a new instrument for social action; a new therapy based on the kinship of common suffering; one having a vast potential for the myriad other ills of mankind."


10.
... American statesman put it, "Let's look at ...   BB p.50, We Agnostics   Go to page 50 in the Big Book
As a celebrated American statesman put it, "Let's look at the record."


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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