Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...once proceed to penalize the university for meddling in politics. If a professor at a state university ventures to point out that a political policy is misguided, the university suffers. In Wisconsin, in 1912, as a retort to criticism by professors of economics, the legislature crippled the university by drastic cuts in its appropriation. Recently, Governor Ferguson of Texas, in one of her first official acts, eliminated several enemies of her husband in the state university by cutting out the departments of which they were the heads...
...possibility of a protest carried into the courts by the Lampoon grows increasingly probable with the flood of legal advice which has been given on the subject. Believing that the points in question in the recent issue of the Lampoon do not warrant such drastic action on the part of the police, the editors will hold a meeting today at which a decision will be reached about bringing forward a lawsuit...
...respect to the increased minimum requirement which applied to his class. Dean Bacon points out that there was no drastic drop in the scholastic standard as might have been expected with the higher specifications to stay off Probation. The number of men who were placed on the Dean's List was practically the same as that of the preceding class and only about four per cent more than in the class of 1926 were dropped out of college before the end of the year. This increased mortality list is the only respect in which last year's Freshmen failed...
...refund this issue by going direct to its shippers as the New Haven has recently done, and must therefore look to its bankers- Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and the National City Bank. Whether the road is due for a receivership this spring is unknown in financial circles. But the drastic decline in St. Paul stocks and junior bonds indicates Wall Street's opinion that all is not well with the great northwest carrier...
...vote was then taken on the more drastic majority report, which was adopted 40 to 30. Notable was the attitude of Senator Couzens who, for some reason, voted against both...