Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Theodore Roosevelt felt this defect in the wording of the Anti-Trust Law, and on June 3, 1911, wrote in The Outlook: "What is urgently needed is the enactment of drastic and far-reaching legislation which shall put the great Inter-State business corporations of the type of the Standard...
...makes lynching and kidnapping which results in death, murder; a person who tries to take a prisoner from an officer shall be fined not less than $10,000 and imprisoned not more than ten years; a county in which a lynching occurs shall be fined $10,000; and other drastic provisions design to allow no loophole of escape to participants in a lynching...
...anything to say about it, the over-bushy crepe hair and elaborate "comic" make-up will no longer befriend comedians on the Columbia wheel. The Columbia solons declare that their funny men in future must depend on their own ability rather than on greasepaint and artificial bald-spots. Drastic...
...cigarette campaign, which threatened to succeed prohibition as a national catastrophe, the reformers have met definitely with misfortune. Whereas five years ago there were six states which prohibited absolutely the sale of cigarettes within their boundaries, there are now only two. In the others, the drastic laws have been repealed. Another sphere of operations shows better results. Seven states and a number of cities have established censorship for motion pictures. But even here, their future is not too bright. A referendum showed Massachusetts squarely against such censorship, and fourteen other States have voted against it in their legislatures...
...about outlawing the whole body of literature from the Greek classics to George Moore for everybody, at least in New York State. That was the origin of the Clean Books Campaign wherein the mobilized blue forces of New York are attempting to jam through the legislature the most drastic piece of censorship in American history...