Word: codicil
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...emeritus of geology at Harvard University; of thirst and exhaustion; in the Mojave Desert, California. Motoring across the desert (where the heat often reaches 120°) for a one-day camping trip, Geologist Wolff apparently got stuck in the sand. While awaiting death or rescue, Professor Wolff wrote a codicil to his will, leaving a bequest to his gardener...
...story with proper emphasis is to be congratulated, and I want to extend those congratulations to TIME. Its account of the "Second battle of the River Raisin" I TIME, June 21 ] is in keeping with TIME'S record. In only one particular I would like to add a codicil for accuracy: Mayor Knagg's motley army carried no guns when it broke the picket line, save half a dozen who toted their own side arms. Shotguns and deer rifles appeared on the scene later Thursday when the vanguard of Pontiac's threatened invasion straggled into town. American...
...July 31, 1934. some 15 months later, when the first New Deal tax increase had been made. Ambassador Straus wrote a codicil to his will in which he withdrew these benefactions in these words: "The present Federal and State estate tax laws impose substantially increased tax burdens upon the estates of decedents and may under certain conditions cause undue hard ship and financial sacrifice and loss result ing from untimely sale and liquidation of assets of estates to provide for the pay ment of such taxes. The increased estate taxes upon the estates of decedents are devoted in large part...
...Gardiner had no intention of allowing the Museum to be "taken over" by any meddling curator while she was winging through celestial galleries. So she added a codicil to the will, ordering every picture and every vase or other object to be kept eternally in the exact spot in which she had it before she died. If this was not done, the whole collection was to be taken to Paris, auctioned off, and the proceeds were to go to Harvard University. Now that this truth is out, some Harvard man will call at the Crimson and we shall tell...
...residue of the estate. The will urges executors not to seek repayment of loans from persons in need, provides a $50,000 fund for any relatives who may have been forgotten, orders a cut of one-third in the bequest of anyone who contests the will. A final codicil increases all bequests by the amount the pound has dropped since England left the gold standard...