Word: disrepair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
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...