The temperance movement and the Eighteenth Amendment. 1  In the United States an early wave of movements for state and local prohibition arose from the intensive religious revivalism of the 1820s and â30s, which stimulated movements toward perfectionism in human beings, including temperance and abolitionism.
TIL (or T.I.L.) typically is an abbreviation for Today I Learned when used on the web at sites like Reddit.com or Digg.com TIL may also mean Until, later. TIL may also stand for That is Lame.
The tilde is sometimes used as its own symbol. 1. In asymptotic notation, is used to mean that . 2. Physicists and astronomers use same notation to mean  is of the same order of magnitude as .. 3. In set theory, means that there is an equivalence relation between and .