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Almost 100 years ago on a small farm in Vermont, a charge of dynamite and a crowbar combined to produce one of the "most respected members of Harvard's Medical Society," Unfortunately, all that remains of this amazing member is his naked skull, resting in prominence at the Warrenton Anatomical Museum of the Medical School...
...owner of the punctured skull, one Phineas P. Gage, according to Myrtelle May Canavan, Curator of the Museum, led a most extraordinary and amazing existence. While tapping some explosives into a crevice back in 1818, Phineas accidently set the dynamite off and a 13 pound crowbar was driven clean through his skull from jaw bone to the back of his head...
Phineas was a rugged soul, and although he lost the sight of his right eye and was laid up for several months, in two years he was the principle attraction in a side show that toured the country. He even carried the crowbar along with him to prove the authenticity of his curious tale...
Next month, Newmark's angle became a crowbar. The Federal Trade Commission took it up, aimed it straight at the Council's entire 40% machine. Councilmen denied the charges, wailed: "It is the distillers who establish resale prices...
...stormy night last week John Seed, still strapped in his cast, tried again. This time he went in by a door, climbed a ladder to the belfry, there pried open a locked door with a four-foot crowbar. With two companions he tugged at the clapper for half an hour, at length pulled it loose. Next day he proudly confessed his theft. Crushed, the university waived its $30 fine...