Word: drastic
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...milk last year. The city administration is aghast at this peculation of the public funds. Why cannot Robert, the cat, eat the scraps from the janitor's table and save the common people all this vast expenditure? cry the city fathers. The Mayor has ordered a "sweeping investigation," a "drastic inquiry" into this barefaced attempt to pick the public's pocket. Altogether the affair is pictured as the most scandalous thing since the Tweed Ring...
Following the announcement of the drastic restrictions placed on lighting and heating by Fuel Administrator Garfield, W. S. Burke, inspector of University grounds and buildings, yesterday gave out a statement to the effect that the University has no cause to worry over the coal situation...
Figures available yesterday indicated that same 300 of the Columbia recruits have still failed to obey the order to report to the Armory, although they received notification from both the state and the University. Drastic steps will be taken within a few days to bring the delinquents into line, officers of the State Commission said last night, although the university may be appealed to first before more vigorous measures are used...
...English Labor Party has denounced the Peace Treaty. It finds the drastic terms out of tune with these liberal times. This is true. But they are in harmony with the spirit of the nation upon which they are to be enforced. Germany has learned a language of might and of indemnities. She has not yet comprehended defeat because the strong arm of the invader has not yet been felt. The dinners in Paris have been postponed not cancelled. Ultimately there will be victory and punishment for the accursed Americans...
...President Wilson himself may have to take action. If all expedients fail, we still have one reliable agency for serving the needs of the population. If necessary the Commonwealth can and will operate the telephones of the state indefinitely as a police measure. We hope, however, that no such drastic action will be necessary, because those responsible have failed to put a stop to an intolerable situation...