Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Drastic Reorganization Made...
Realizing the seriousness of the situation, Coach Fisher took drastic measures, and when the team lined up against Indiana the next Saturday five changes were visible in its makeup. Captain Kane and Tierney had gone to tackle, Bradford was at center, while in the backfield, Gehrke and Jenkins took the place of Chapin and Fitts. The result was a great improvement. In spite of a pouring rain, the heavy forwards were into everything, blocking punts and recovering many fumbles. The result was never in doubt. The Hoosier eleven was swept off its feet to the tune...
...regards the first, when a person has the nerve to walk up to the desk and, after forging a signature to a book receipt and writing down any address that enters his head, departs, never to be seen or heard from again, it is time to take drastic action concerning him. The same may be said for those who appropriate books from the shelves several days before an examination and do not return them until after it is over. Aside from all considerations of fair play to the other students who may be dependent on a particular book because...
...better to advise students who are hopelessly in arrears to drop courses than to have them waste their time in bootless effort. If instruction can not be improved or standards lowered; if in order to maintain the reputation of the University recourse must be had to drastic measures; it would be well to substitute the dropped- course method for wholesale failure...
...troubled state of Europe today. The minds of men have lost their ability for cool unprejudiced decision, serenity of spirit and judgment are gone, and Europe rocks with turmoil and antagonism. Russia is merely Europe intensified and can never be cured of her sickness by application of the drastic knife; she suffers from a fever, not a cancer...