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1.
... 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   Display entire 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   Display entire 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   Display entire 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   Display entire Preface
The second edition, published in 1955, reached a total of more than 1,150,500 copies.

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   Display entire 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   Display entire 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
Second, to get sober and to stay sober, you don't have to swallow all of Step Two right now.


12.
... second visit to a man.   BB p.96, Working With Others   Go to page 96 in the Big Book
Suppose now you are making your second visit to a man.


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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