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1.
... piece.   12&12 p.163, Tradition Seven
Still working on my prospect, I fumbled and came up with a fifty-cent piece.

2.
... piece broke in 1941, thousands of frantic ...   12&12 p.162, Tradition Seven
He explains that when Jack Alexander's Saturday Evening Post piece broke in 1941, thousands of frantic letters from distraught alcoholics and their families hit the Foundation(*) letterbox in New York.


3.
... piece in his magazine, called "Alcoholics and ...   BB xviii, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
In the fall of 1939 Fulton Oursler, then editor of Liberty, printed a piece in his magazine, called "Alcoholics and God."

4.
... piece in the newspapers..."; another, "We heard ...   12&12 p.180, Tradition Eleven
One voice says, "I read a piece in the newspapers..."; another, "We heard a radio program..."; and still another, "We saw a moving picture..." or "We saw something about A.A. on television...."

5.
... piece made A.A. a national institution.   12&12 p.186, Tradition Twelve
Jack Alexander's famous Saturday Evening Post piece made A.A. a national institution.

6.
... piece of surgery.   12&12 p.77, Step Eight
This reopening of emotional wounds, some old, some perhaps forgotten, and some still painfully festering, will at first look like a purposeless and pointless piece of surgery.


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