Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...motor competition is entering still another phase, with drastic price cuts by Buick and Studebaker. Makers are now divided into two classes: those who manufacture their car parts, and those who assemble parts purchased from other concerns. Naturally, production costs of the first group are regularly under those of the second- a fact which is now beginning to spell disaster for assembling companies. Recent Studebaker advertising directed public attention to just this situation. Apparently the process of the big fish eating the little fish is to be resumed with increased force...
...this Chicago recommendation from sponsoring an "all work and no play" policy. More drastic is a recommendation made last winter (TIME, Jan. 19) by The New York World, which quite omitted the rotating-semester feature, saying with cold logic: "It is absurd for healthy children in high school to have a ten-weeks summer vacation, with weeks off at Christmas and Easter, when their hard-worked fathers, who pay for it all, get little or none...
...ever there were a case which justified drastic action by Lucy Stoners, it is that of the false masculine labelling in degrees conferred on women. After four years spent in tireless pursuit of an education, the sweet girl graduate proves to have done mere man's work, instead of getting herself ready for the great jumping-off place of marriage. There is nothing distinctive about it--for even cap and gown are similar to those worn...
...certain departments to reduce their estimates, knowing that when he goes to Parliament with the budget, a reckoning must be held. Then he must set forth the means he has devised of squeezing the necessary revenue out of the country. Then, if the measures he proposes are too drastic, there will be an outcry, a battle of words and of politics. Fingers will be levelled at him with the demand: ''Why have you not reduced the estimates?" Or, if the burden of taxes is not too heavy, but is poorly distributed so that it galls the Nation's back...
...same combination which succumbed to the Bowdoin nine on Tuesday will not line up this afternoon. Coach Mahan has made a drastic realignment and will put a team on the field which he expects will be the most well-organized group which can represent his squad...