Word: disrepair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moderately well known for its waters (good for stomach, gall bladder and liver disorders) and its 18th century castle, onetime residence of Prince-Bishop Clement Wenceslaus. Only a few years ago, tourists in Bad Bertrich seemed to be just about as dead as Clement: the bath houses were in disrepair, the castle was falling apart, and mighty few American or even British gall bladders were in evidence. Then, a new administrative director named Wilhelm Hammer set out to find a good reason for a music festival...
...cannot allow the Harvard House to fall into permanent disrepair for so modest a sum as $62,000," Welldon said. He has already received two checks for $1,000 each, one of which is from Winthrop W. Aldrich '07, Ambassador to the Court of St. James. Two other checks for the same amount have been pledged...
...collector's item. While the edition is now no longer limited, the guiding theme undoubtedly is. Author Williams, 40, best known for his plays, snaps his literary shutter again and again on portraits of the hero as cripple, and on the human personality in states of hopeless, neurotic disrepair. One story, Portrait of a Girl in Glass, shines with a luminous pity that gives it a lonely merit. From this tale of a childlike drift-and-dream girl, her aggressive mother and restless brother, Williams later fashioned The Glass Menagerie, and the story, like the play, is evocatively moving...
...sound at Annandale-on-Hudson as its academic standards. Finance--or lack of it--is an important factor in restricting the scope of all the college's undertakings. Many buildings are in a state of disrepair. New dormitories, erected shortly after World War II, are either "barracks" or "dwelling units." The extent of student activities and the facilities available in teaching courses are also adversely affected...
...when an honor system is old and respected it can be improved when it lapses into occasional disrepair. There is no reason for Radcliffe to abandon its present system because of failures in certain aspects. But a re-evaluation, and consequent improvement, cannot come from a committee, composed of three girls and two faculty members, meeting in closed sessions. Nor can it come from questionnaires like the one sent out by the Radcliffe News. An honor system will work only if everyone affected clearly understands it and firmly believes in it. Such an understanding can only come through long discussion...