Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rail Congestion. So drastic are the new passport regulations affecting persons entering or leaving Italy that last week many of the trains crossing the Italian frontier were almost empty. Returning travelers told of standing in line for hours while Italian passport and customs inspectors pored over papers and luggage which they usually pass with a perfunctory inspection or a paternal...
Supplemental Decrees: 1) Further curtailment of the already drastic restrictions on Italian emigration passports, which now make it virtually impossible for others than Fascists to leave the country; 2) Dissolution of all parties opposed to Fascism, and suspension of all opposition newspapers; 3) Creation of a special Fascist political police, virtually a Tsarol "Cheka...
...letter from Professor C. W. Kennedy, Chairman of the Princeton Athletic Board, to W. J. Bingham, Director of Athletics at Harvard, the Princeton attitude is set forth clearly, and the reasons for this drastic step are fully outlined. The last paragraph of the letter declares: "I may add also that Princeton will never accept, so far as she is concerned, the implications of the provisions of the policy adopted by the Harvard Committee on Regulation of Athletic Sports, as set forth in the resolutions of October 14, which I received this morning...
...suspicion. There is some sin which is obstructing his free communion with God. Accuse him of the sin of which you suspect him. Then by confessing to him (man to man) your own former weaknesses you will elicit a full confession from him. . . . This is often the kind of drastic, spiritual operation which alone can prevent a superficial repentance and unreal conversion. In New York City, last winter, a university student leader came to talk with Mr. Buchman about entering the Christian ministry. . . . Mr. Buchman answered his questions on the ministry to the best of his ability, but still...
None the less Publisher Mitre attributed the suppression of the mutiny very largely to the King's dash by motor in six hours from San Sebastian to Madrid where he lent the support of royal prestige to the drastic acts of Primo de Rivera in suppressing the mutiny...