Word: drastic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stevens gave as his reasons for this drastic step a "lack of cooperation on the part of the crew." The former mentor addressed the following letter to the University authorities...
Last week at Paris a Franco-German air compact was signed. Its purport was to smooth out the more embittered points of contention between France and Germany, while leaving in effect the drastic Allied restrictions upon purely military German aircraft...
...public's virtual control of college football. We favor the plan in principle, but we do not believe the program advocated by this paper is either practicable or desirable. The fact that football has become so immense and has gained such a following should be proof against the drastic punishment prescribed. In its present condition it is somewhat of a mountain, but we would not go to the other extreme and make it puny...
...proposed deterrent should be known by all to be certain to follow immediately on any disregard of a warning given, and it should be sufficiently drastic to strike the imagination of even the dullwitted. If it became known that all this would be the inevitable result of parenthood under these conditions, a fall would take place in the birth rate of all this section of the less fit, with great beneficial results, both immediate and racial...
...apply to Harvard's associate, Princeton, and which got him "kicked upstairs" into politics. Woodrow Wilson, thoroughgoing theorist, wanted to disband the Princeton clubs, that there might be no "undemocratic" associations running transversely through the undergraduate bodies. The Harvard surveyors left the shoe on the other foot. Their drastic vertical division of the student body needed in no wise to disrupt the Harvard club system, seen as a valuable series of horizontal planes upon which men of kindred interest meet from choice, just as they do in after-college life...