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...George E. Leach. At the corner of Fifth Street and Hennepin Avenue, clangorous with streetcar traffic, he stood up before a nostalgic crowd. Said he: "I was here when the first brick was put in and I am here now to take the first brick out." Then, with a crowbar he pried one from the façade of an imposing seven-story Moorish-Victorian pile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SALVAGE: Five Rose Wreckers | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...Well, at last I've been to Harvard," the fire chief exclaimed, discovering that the fire had been put out ten minutes before his men had arrived. After prying in the charred wood with a crowbar for several minutes, the chief led his two look-and-ladders, six fire engines, and the two police cars out of the Yard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fire Department Late For Weld Fire Alarm | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...extracted the nail. Then she fainted. There was some chance for her recovery, for a person can live with a large part of his brain gone. In Harvard's anatomical museum is the skull of a man who lived for many years after an explosion drove a crowbar clear through his head. In Louisville lives a woman who had the front lobes of her brain removed on account of an abscess of the brain. In fact, Dr. Kosterlitz was sanguine about his patient. Said he: "If she lives, the shock of the injury may cure her. Such things have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Spiked Brain | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

...burst in, ordered them to stay where they were. As sheriff and jailer sat abed looking sleepy-eyed into grim Henry County faces, part of the mob marched upstairs, broke into the jail. Going straight to the bullpen occupied by six cowering blackamoors, they broke into it with a crowbar. From it they dragged strapping 18-year-old Wes Johnson, itinerant Henry County farm laborer, who had been arrested day before for raping the young wife of a farmer at Tumbleton, 22 mi. away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: No. 1 | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

...There should be a chapter on Anger. Repressed rage is one of man's grandest endowments, and I wouldn't give a straw for a man who couldn't on occasion bite a crowbar in two in pure dancing fury. But-don't do it; you simply spoil the crowbar or break a tooth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: For Neophytes | 7/1/1935 | See Source »

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