Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anxiety of the undergraduates was allayed by the report of the joint committee which appeared in March, 1907. Its recommendations were not drastic. The three Deans were to become automatically the three faculty members of the Athletic Committee, and minor changes were made in the method of selecting undergraduate members. The Committee was recommended to reduce expenses; to reduce the number of contests and the length of trips; and to use their efforts in connection with other colleges to eliminate professional coaches. The main thing was that intercollegiate sports were to be continued under the supervision of the Committee...
This is without doubt the most progressive and drastic action taken at Princeton for years...
...omens have been correctly diagnosed, this sad state of affairs is about to be remedied. Mayor James F. Curley, bursting from the confines of his office like the well-known Siberian monk, has issued a set of drastic regulations to curb prevailing immoralities and profanities of the stage. No more will delicate Bostonian ears be shocked with such paipable improprieties as "damn" and "hell"; instead, real hemen will be compelied to relieve their bursting hearts with "My gracious!" and "Oh dear...
...suggest that the present reading knowledge and elementary distaste should be supplanted by two "reading knowledges" would be far too drastic. To suggest that such knowledge be a requirement for a degree rather than for entrance upon the joys of untrammelled juniority would be too radical...
...House Committee on Appropriations made a drastic cut in the appropriation for attack on venereal diseases in reporting the annual Treasury Department supply bill. The cut reduces the sum from $149,000 to $25,000. This will involve termination of all coperative activities between the Federal Government and the various states, of activities in the field force of the U. S. Public Health Service, of research at Hot Springs, and of the widespread educational campaign carried on since the War. The action limiting coöperative activities with the various states is in accord with the policy recently announced...