Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...budget for the next Mexican year was recently published. He plans to pay the International Bankers an installment of 26,000,000 pesos ($13,000,000) on what is owed them, whereas in 1929 they received $17,000,000, and the year before $16,250,000. This drastic reduction is accounted for by the Mexican Government's enormous expenditures in putting down the Escobar Revolution and the consequent depletion of Treasury funds. As a Mexican satiric weekly said: "The bankers are silently howling for more money...
...this percentage is a little drastic to apply to Harvard. Red Books, managerships, Student Councils run on and on, and though they lack the fine flavor of campus prestige that once surrounded them, they have a harmless, and often a pleasant place, in the slowly disintegrating entity of Harvard life...
...urged American educators to make the drastic changes demanded by their own needs instead of turning to England for inspiration and talent. The English system under which the college authorities act independently could not be reconciled with the ownership and management of American universities by a board of trustees. --The Boston Herald...
...content with this triumph over the system he plans a still more drastic experiment and refuses an invitation to Sunday night supper in order to test the effect of seven dinenrs, seven lunches, and no breakfast. Sunday night he gets an even greater thrill, for by eating all his breakfasts in the Square, which is a great inconvenience because he has no nine o'clock and being, as you see, a conscientious fellow, has reserved this hour for study in his room, he finds that he has received $9.80 worth of food for only $8.50. But just...
...world problem whose magnitude was unparalleled. It was the solution of this problem in the light of self-preservation that Clemenceau had to find. At times he probably overstepped the limits of precedence, always focusing his attention on the end rather than the means, and some have questioned his drastic and dramatic gestures. But he did attain his purpose in spite of the huge odds the first days of the war heaped up against him. It was this direct, energetic, indomitable spirit that made him a figure of world importance. He was one of the last of the war lords...