Word: disrepair
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...Massachusetts' public schools, although almost two centuries old, were sunk in physical and spiritual disrepair. One third of the Commonwealth's children had no educational opportunities whatever. The Secretary of the new Board of Education began his work with little authority, less encouragement. Tirelessly he set about raising money, delivering speeches, holding Town meetings to spread the gospel of universal education. Without fanfare he established a Normal school in Lexington, first in the U. S. He set up and enforced a minimum school year of six months. In the next decade Massachusetts spent more than...
...Unfortunately they were made possible by the late, great Lenin and for a Bolshevik to criticize his acts or decisions is well-nigh treason. During the lean years after the Revolution it was decreed under the NEP policy of Dictator Lenin that houses in Moscow which had fallen into disrepair might be granted as "private possessions" to any Russians willing to put them in good repair at their own expense. In theory such houses are not "private property"-i.e., the landlord cannot sell out-but as "private possessions" they constitute the most valuable thing a Russian can get his hands...
...better to pass the time looked hastily about him. Heigho, here was something better than trying to follow the Opera--the whole audience to a man was asleep. That at least explained one thing, the gentle, persistent whizzing noise he had thought was a radiator in disrepair...
...Urban League. Upon investigation the League found that whites, dropping down the economic scale, have taken jobs normally held by Negroes. Black migration to cities has made a bad situation worse. Declared the League report: "The economic structure of the entire Negro race is in an alarming state of disrepair...
...Faculty Club, for many years, has been quartered in the cramped facilities offered by the Colonial Club which has been steadily sinking into a condition of disrepair, aside from being entirely inadequate to the demand of the 1000 professors and associates of the Harvard Faculty who would otherwise make use of its accommodations...