Word: crowbars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Often surprising are the brain's reactions to violent injury. A prize exhibit of Harvard's bright & cheery Warren Anatomical Museum, into which the public cannot get, is the Crowbar Skull. The foreman of a crew of Vermont road builders in 1848 let a charge of explosive detonate prematurely. The explosion drove a crowbar through the left side of his head. He was then 25, lived twelve years and nine months longer, showed no physical impediments, but did develop an abnormal truculence. The Museum has a plaster model of his head, and the actual crowbar...
...Brooklyn, Dora Milles danced on the third rail of an elevated railroad. When a policeman ordered her to stop, she beat him with a crowbar, ran down the street, cursed, tried to get away by climbing up a steel pillar...