Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recall movement in Washington is quieting down. Even many friends of Dr. Suzzallo do not wish to push so drastic a measure as the recall against Governor Hartley; they can always wait until the next regular election (1928). Unless Governor Hartley gets into some new and bitter dispute with the legislature which convened last week, he seems likely to serve the remainder of his term...
...been shown that athletes at West Virginia Wesleyan have received as much as $500 for their services Shortly after the announcement the President and Board of Trustees ordered the curtailing of athletics. Funds formerly devoted to sports will serve to establish a new chair of theology. Presumably this drastic measure arose from a recognition of the fact that flagrant breaches of the amateur code like the payment of outstanding athletes are caused by the disproportionate emphasis which has been placed upon intercollegiate football in the colleges. Yet no measure could be more illogical...
Sweeping and drastic action by the athletic heads of Choate, Loomis and Taft Schools, curbing rigidly the athletic policies of the schools, indicates that the feeling against over-emphasis of sports is spreading from the colleges to the preparatory schools of the country. Prompted by the conviction that athletics were playing too large a part in the life of the average student, to the detriment of other more vital interests, the authorities have curtailed schedules, regulated the conduct of individuals in athletic events, and restricted membership on teams...
...Last week Senator-elect Smith Wildman Brookhart of Iowa added his booming voice to the movement. Said he: "Since about a million farmers have lost their property or their homes during the last six years, and the vast majority of them are now facing disaster, the most speedy and drastic action is demanded. Anybody who thinks this battle can be won by whistling 'Yankee Doodle' needs the attention of a psychopathic specialist...
...citizens possess very large oil holdings and other industrial property in Mexico. Ever since the present government announced its intention to enforce the land laws of the new constitution these interests have believed their business to be threatened with destruction. They have exerted frantic pressure on Washington to adopt drastic measures in their behalf and have apparently succeeded in forging the issue. Time and again President Calles has declared that the new land laws are in no way retroactive an will affect only future property holdings. Nevertheless the State Department has continued to write notes bordering on the insulting...