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"ref": "1888 October 5, “Statistics vs. Statistics”, in The Baltimore Underwriter: A Semi-Monthly Journal Devoted to the Interests of Insurance in All Its Branches, volume XL, Baltimore, Md.: Charles C. Bombaugh, […], page 152, column 1",
"text": "Drink as a Life Preserver.—A report on the inquiry into the connection of disease with habits of intemperance, prepared by Dr. Isambard Owen, secretary of the investigation committee of the British Medical Association, gives some startling statistics for temperance people. Particulars have been obtained by the committee of 4234 cases of deceased lives, aged 25 and upwards, in which the habits of the person in regard to alcohol were recorded in five classes—total abstainers, habitually temperate, careless drinkers, free drinkers, and decidedly intemperate.",
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"lang": "Latgalian",
"sense": "buoyant ring or vest",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "gluobšonys rypuļs"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "buoyant ring or vest",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "cortex"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"english": "ring",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "buoyant ring or vest",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "livbøye"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"english": "vest",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "buoyant ring or vest",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "redningsvest"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"english": "ring",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "buoyant ring or vest",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "livbøye"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"english": "vest",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "buoyant ring or vest",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "redningsvest"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "buoyant ring or vest",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "boia salva-vidas"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "buoyant ring or vest",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "colac de salvare"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "buoyant ring or vest",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "vestă de salvare"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"english": "vest",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "spasátelʹnyj žilét",
"sense": "buoyant ring or vest",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "спаса́тельный жиле́т"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"english": "ring",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "spasátelʹnyj krug",
"sense": "buoyant ring or vest",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "спаса́тельный круг"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "buoyant ring or vest",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "salvavidas"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "buoyant ring or vest",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "livboj"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"english": "vest",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "buoyant ring or vest",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "flytväst"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "buoyant ring or vest",
"word": "salbabida"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "buoyant ring or vest",
"word": "can simidi"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "buoyant ring or vest",
"word": "phao cứu sinh"
}
],
"word": "life preserver"
}
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