Word: reset
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...personal belongings were not dutiable. Nevertheless, the inspectors seized her new purse and obliged Mrs. Rumsey to pay duty on that, too. The Rumsey jewelry was proved to have been purchased in this country, and was returned, though Mrs. Rumsey had to pay for having had some stones reset in Paris. For the finery she paid $7,600, bringing her complete bill to $8,783. Said Mrs. Rumsey easily: "I thought I had declared all ... my maid packed ... I neglected to check...
...place to bury bones and none of the works on navigation which we had gave dogs afloat any advice on the subject." She told about one of the encounters of the Elena and the Atlantic in midocean: ". . . the Atlantic came up and passed us. When our jib was reset we passed her so closely that we took her wind and we could see her sails shaking." The Atlantic, 185-footer, winner of the last trans-Atlantic race (in 1905), finished almost a day later than the Elena. Said her skipper, Charles Francis Adams, 62, lawyer, descendant...
...Expedition sent out by the Peabody Museum from 1924 to 1927. These pieces were buried with the Indian. In each case a hole was knocked out of the bottom of the bowl, thus accounting for the popular term "killed pottery". In several examples the pieces have been found and reset in the bowl. This is the first time that any of the Mimbres Expedition pottery has been exhibited...
...McFarland, 82, of Horse Cave, Ky., yawned, dislocated both of his jawbones, had them reset, died of the shock...
...revaluation of the lira at 5.31 cents gold (see FOREIGN NEWS), there remain unfixed on a gold basis only the currencies of France, Norway and Spain among the more important European countries. Norwegian finances are rapidly approaching a stage where the gold basis of money exchange can be reset up; and Secretary of the Treasury Mellon has just stated that he expected France and Spain to imitate Italy's money program...