Word: disrepair
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Because Prince Tokugawa's philanthropy is greater even than his great wealth the grounds and exteriors of his numerous palaces are habitually in disrepair, but within all is sumptuous, as befits the great patron of the arts who founded Japan's first symphony orchestra...
...from Poland and Peking to India. For some reason the sack of Samarkand by Jenghiz Khan is treasured up in the native mind as an atrocity altogether reprehensible and comparatively recent (1221 A. D.). Strolling about with a native guide one hears said of whatever seems to be in disrepair that "it was all right until Jenghiz Khan came"-an explanation provocative of hilarity when offered by native children to account for the delay or nonarrival of trains at Samarkand from the Trans-Caspian or Moscow-Kirghiz lines...
...peregrinations of the theatrical tourists are accomplished by means of three Ford cars and two nondescript run-abouts. Generally these conveyances are in an advanced state of disrepair...
...their coats deteriorated, becoming short and scrubby and unable to compete in the fur markets with the pelts of their sleek American cousins. Danube trappers gave up taking them. So they bred and littered more promiscuously than ever, and their multitudinous burrows honeycombing the Danube dikes-already left in disrepair by political upheavals- hastened the destruction of one of Europe's richest granaries in the torrential summer...
...avenues, its countless side-alleys and byways, its mighty churches and large apartment houses impress one as a complete microcosm, indeed a big world of its own. I was surprised at the large number of shops and business houses open. . . . As I expected, the city itself shows evidences of disrepair. I saw no new buildings under construction, but numerous old buildings are undergoing repair. Many of the ill-paved streets are in the hands of contractors, who are restoring them. The thousands of horse-drawn droshkys, which correspond to our cabs of other days, and hundreds of small but loaded...