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... second at
New York, and the third ...
12&12
Foreword, p.16
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
Step Five, p.60
The second difficulty is
this: what comes to us alone
may be garbled by our own rationalization and wishful thinking.
3.
... second edition.
BB
Foreword to Second Edition, p.xv
Sixteen years have elapsed between our first printing of this book and the presentation
in 1955 of our second edition.
4.
... second edition;
eight new stories were added.
BB
Preface, p.xii
Nine of the stories in Part II ("They Stopped in Time") were carried over from the second edition; eight new stories were added.
5.
... second edition,
published in 1955, reached a ...
BB
Preface, p.xi
6.
... second edition,
the appendices on A.A. Tradition, ...
BB
Preface, p.xi
The second printing of the
first edition added the appendix "Spiritual Experience";
in the second edition, the appendices on A.A. Tradition, the "medical view" and "religious view" of A.A., the Lasker Award and information on how to contact A.A. were added, and the appendix on the
Alcoholic Foundation
was discontinued.
7.
... second printing
of the first edition added ...
BB
Preface, p.xi
The second printing of the
first edition added the appendix "Spiritual Experience";
in the second edition, the appendices on A.A. Tradition, the "medical view" and "religious view" of A.A., the Lasker Award and information on how to contact A.A. were added, and the appendix on the
Alcoholic Foundation
was discontinued.
8.
... second section
of this volume, though designed ...
12&12
Foreword, p.16
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.
9.
... second small
group promptly took shape at ...
BB
Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvii
A second small group promptly took shape at New York, to be followed in 1937 with the start of a third at Cleveland.
10.
... second story
they would sober up drunks ...
12&12
Tradition Four, p.147
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.
11.
... second, third,
and fourth editions.
BB
Preface, p.xi
Therefore, the first portion of this volume, describing the A.A. recovery program, has been
left largely untouched in the course of
revisions made for the
second, third, and fourth editions.
12.
Second, to
get sober and to stay ...
12&12
Step Two, p.26
13.
... second visit
to a man.
BB
Working With Others, p.96
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