This is an appeal by the employer defendant from a workmen's compensation award of total disability to the plaintiff made by the appeal board in reversing an order of no compensation by the referee. Many of the salient facts and most of the questions in this case can perhaps best be projected by quoting the opinion of the appeal board which, to avoid altering quotation marks, we give "as is" as follows:
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