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 the mark ~ placed on top of a symbol to indicate some special property. is voiced -tilde.. The tilde symbol is commonly used to denote an operator. In informal usage, tilde is often instead voiced as twiddle (Derbyshire 2004, p. 45). 1. An operator such as the differential operator . 2.