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... field.   BB xxvii(xxv), The Doctor's Opinion   Display entire Doctor's Opinion
The unselfishness of these men as we have come to know them, the entire absence of profit motive, and their community spirit, is indeed inspiring to one who has labored long and wearily in this alcoholic field.


2.
... field instead of my wife.   BB p.41, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 41 in the Big Book
I have a shadowy recollection of being in an airplane bound for New York, and of finding a friendly taxicab driver at the landing field instead of my wife.

3.
... field of alcohol education.   12&12 p.157, Tradition Six
Some of the great distilling companies proposed to go into the field of alcohol education.

4.
... field of alcohol education.   12&12 p.167, Tradition Eight
Even greater furors were provoked when A.A. members began to run rest homes and farms for alcoholics, when some hired out to corporations as personnel men in charge of the alcoholic problem in industry, when some became nurses on alcoholic wards, when others entered the field of alcohol education.

5.
... field of alcoholism.   12&12 p.155, Tradition Six
The A.A. groups, many thought, could go into business, might finance any enterprise whatever in the total field of alcoholism.

6.
... field of investigation could yield more satisfying ...   12&12 p.80, Step Eight
Since defective relations with other human beings have nearly always been the immediate cause of our woes, including our alcoholism, no field of investigation could yield more satisfying and valuable rewards than this one.

7.
... field rather than work only with the ...   12&12 p.150, Tradition Five
Every doctor concerned would at times wish he could devote himself to his chosen field rather than work only with the group.


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