Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...industry, on the lines of profit-sharing, and equal control by capital and labor. "Remember that the railroads are only a part of a great industrial system. What must be reformed in the railroads must also be reformed in the rest of our industry. The whole system needs drastic reorganization, politically, socially, and economically...
...said in our editorial Friday, the purpose of requiring that all transfer students pass entrance examinations before competing in sports, was to avoid the necessity of making the transfer totally ineligible. These are the two alternatives for eliminating the "tramp" athlete; the less drastic of the two was chosen...
...read that Oxford a few weeks ago expailed a young undergraduate for publishing a Communist paper. Keen noses that scent danger star, as well as the instinct of self preservation, may be back of much of the disapproval with which considerable portions of the British press have greeted this drastic action. But some of the objectors take issue with Oxford on broader grounds the "Spectator". for instance, reminds its readers that true education consists in more than what President Lowell calls the process of being a sponge and a syringe. "The person who wants to learn, and who is, therefore...
...Cannes Conference was a serious diplomatic blunder. Many think that the trip of the Prince of Wales to India, where his presence has failed to allay the revolutionary discontent, was another costly mistake. Conditions in Egypt, already bad enough from the meagre reports that reach the press, call for drastic remedies, according to General Allenby, and ones which the present Cabinet cannot well grant...
...agricultural situation the committee states that the drastic declines of 1920-1921 in prices of farm products have made such commodities as grain and live stock cheap when compared with coal, building materials, machinery, and other manufactured goods. This is obviously proven by the fact that the wholesale farm products are below the prices of 1918, while the average of all commodities is about 50 per cent above the level of that period, and the prices of many of these manufactured articles are double the pre-war prices. This drop in agricultural products is due to the general collapse...