Word: decayed
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...mixed clientele. Their food was reputed to be the best, but to judge from the handful of coins found near them, the prices corresponded. The student societies, which I have discovered elsewhere, also had their living rooms, but most of these have been found in an unrecognizable condition of decay...
...younger generation, Mr. Burns said, "It is your duty to take a proper interest in the politics of this country--your duty to bring to justice the men who are spreading propaganda. Take a greater interest in the upbuilding of the country, and save out country from moral decay...
...important seaport in China; one of the world's largest cities not situated on navigable waters; a source of electric power in Africa; a mountain range of the complex type; the seat of an ancient civilization in Central America; a powerful city of ancient Syria, now fallen into decay; a country at the headwaters of the Nile; a region in the Southern Hemisphere with a monsoon climate; a French possession in the West Indies...
...action on the matter, and the danger remedied itself. Either the tunnel was deliberately stopped up by the students, for fear of encroachments of visiting Incas from the metropolis; or else in the revival of intellectual interest during the golden age it was neglected and fell into natural decay. Cordially yours. J. BLAIR DUNCAN...
...Professor Reisner's discoveries just made public by the University, tells a romantic story. Here is a subject ready to the hand of a sentimental philosopher--the story of an ancient race, long ruling the Upper Nile, and once sovereign over all Egypt, now laid bare in its decay by the spade of scientific investigation...