Word: drastic
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...there any need for such drastic economy in the management of our athletic finances as would cut off from the four or five minor sports together so meagre a sum as twelve or fifteen hundred dollars a year? We have, to be sure, a debt of $70,000 on the Stadium to pay off, and many improvements to make on Soldiers Field. Undoubtedly if we wish to apply strict business principles to this case, the thing to do is to adopt at once the most stringent economy and thus pay the debt and make the improvements at the earliest possible...
...laws, not the temperance societies, but the railroads and great industries, by putting a premium on temperate men for employees. As long as all the passions of men can be exploited together, by private capitalists for great personal gain, they will be more powerful than the most drastic law that can be framed. The Committee of Fifty tried to secure an experimental bill in Massachusetts to throw all liquor dealing and traffic into a monopoly so that fewer attractions to drink would be offered, and it was defeated by a very narrow margin. The Gottenberg system, which has produced results...
...returns home, still unbeaten in spirit, with the hope of restoring the fortunes of his house. The author, though a northerner always takes the point of view of the southern cavalier, and thus presents a sympathetic picture of that period, when the old civilization was giving way before the drastic methods of reconstruction...