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...decrepit beings in Swift's Gulliver's Travels. They were born with a mark on their foreheads and supported at public expense in the Kingdom of Luggnagg after they reached...
...pails and fruit baskets for lack of chairs, and every day, because of the teacher shortage, hundreds of classes go "uncovered." i.e., teacherless). Many schools are shy of up-to-date textbooks. A $38,000,000 building program is still largely in the blueprint stage, and schoolhouses are dangerously decrepit (said Mayor William O'Dwyer: "Those old Civil War firetraps are ghastly"). Above all, parents don't want their boys & girls to pick up the "dese-&-dose" accent of many students, or the morals and manners of "Dead End Kids" who are often the leaders in some...
...country road outside Atlanta one day in 1945, a well-dressed man stopped his car to watch a farmer and his son laboriously grading a small field with the help of a decrepit old mule. The sight was a common one in the South, and it was not new to Robert Marion Strickland, 50, president of Atlanta's Trust Co. of Georgia (main Coca-Cola bank). But he had just been visiting a well-heeled farmer friend who had cleared and graded a 30,000-acre farm in a short time with heavy machinery. Bob Strickland decided...
...Reza Shah came from a family of small landholders in Mazanderan Province, rose to be colonel in the Iranian Army. When the decrepit regime of Ahmed Shah tottered after World War I, Reza Khan became successively Commander in Chief of the Iranian Army. Minister of War, Premier, finally Shah of Shahs-all in less than five years...
...become so shabby that it was torn down and replaced by the present Palmer House III. Usually a money-maker (except in 1930 and 1931), the Palmer House has lately roused complaints among Chicagoans that it suffers from the pains of age, a crochety management and decrepit service. (One resident used to wire his wife from his office because he said he could not reach her by phone through the hotel switchboard...