Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...medical question that arose in Washington last week was whether to let a pinheaded (microcephalic) little boy grow up to be an idiot or to take a chance of making him normal by the drastic operation of splitting and stretching his skull. Neuropsychiatrist Daniel Delehanty Vincent Stuart Jr. found that Alden Vorrath's mind & brain were normal for his two-and-a-half years. However, occasional convulsions seemed to indicate that the skull had hardened abnormally and was cramping the child's growing brain...
...fans eagerly awaited today's clash between the CRIMSON and the Lampoon, Coach Jester of the funnymen announced that he had made drastic changes in his line-up. Utrid, Cuddlepoop, Cabot, and Lowell have been added to the roster, and Aloysius God has been procured for mound duty...
However, a drastic change in the capitalization may necessitate salvaging the investment of life insurance companies and savings banks in railroad securities...
Protestant and Jewish philanthropic groups with branches in China had by last week brought together in the U. S. fairly full eyewitness and photographic data on the butchery and rape which reigned in Nanking for over a month after this capital of China fell. There has been the most drastic shakeup by Tokyo of officers whose Japanese soldiers went berserk in Nanking. Even long-eared General Iwane Matsui, the Commander-in-Chief of the victorious Japanese offensive, has been recalled to Japan...
Every man who ever fumed about the phone bill had reason last week to be pleased. Every man accustomed to getting $9 a share in annual dividends on his American Telephone & Telegraph Co. common stock had reason to be anxious. For, in the most far-reaching and drastic report of its kind ever submitted to Congress, Federal Communications Commissioner Paul Walker recommended that telephone rates be cut 25%, and that FCC be given more absolute control over A. T. & T. than any Government agency has ever held over any U. S. industry except in time...