Word: crowbars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...shot a horse or seen hooves smash a head; who never have sat a horse and been shot at or stoned; who never have been cracked on the head with a club nor have thrown a brick; who never have seen a scab's forearms broken with a crowbar, or an agitator filled up with compressed air with an air hose; who, now it gets more serious-that is, the penalty is more severe-have never moved a load of arms at night in a big city; nor standing, seeing it moved, knowing what it was and afraid...