From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... second at
New York, and the third ...
12&12 p.16,
Foreword
After three years of trial and error in selecting the most
workable tenets upon which the Society could
be based, and after a large amount of failure in getting alcoholics to recover,
three successful groups emerged -- the first at Akron, the second at New York, and the third at Cleveland.
2.
... second difficulty
is this: what comes to ...
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
The second difficulty is
this: what comes to us alone
may be garbled by our own rationalization and wishful thinking.
3.
... second edition.
BB xv,
Foreword to Second Edition
Sixteen years have elapsed between our first printing of this book and the presentation
in 1955 of our second edition.
4.
... second edition
added the appendices, the Twelve ...
BB xi,
Preface
The second edition added the appendices, the
Twelve Traditions, and
the directions for getting in touch with A.A.
5.
... second edition;
eight new stories were added.
BB xii,
Preface
Nine of the stories in Part II ("They Stopped in Time") were carried over from the second edition; eight new stories were added.
6.
... second edition,
published in 1955, reached a ...
BB xi,
Preface
7.
... second section
of this volume, though designed ...
12&12 p.16,
Foreword
The second section of this
volume, though designed for A.A.'s membership, will give such inquirers an inside view of A.A. never before possible.
8.
... second small
group promptly took shape at ...
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
A second small group promptly took shape at New York, to be followed in 1937 with the start of a third at Cleveland.
9.
... second story
they would sober up drunks ...
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
Beginning on the ground
floor there would be a club;
in the second story they
would sober up drunks and hand them currency for their back debts; the third deck would house an educational project --
quite noncontroversial, of course.
10.
... second, third,
and fourth editions.
BB xi,
Preface
Therefore, the first portion of this volume, describing the A.A. recovery program, has been
left untouched in the course of revisions made for the second, third, and fourth editions.
11.
Second, to
get sober and to stay ...
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
12.
... second visit
to a man.
BB p.96,
Working With Others
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