Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...canvass showed important changes, especially in the western New York, Plymouth, New Jersey, eastern Washington, Louisiana, northern Ohio, eastern Essex County, Oregon, Wyoming and the Maritime Provinces. Nearly $50,000 was added to the fund, although the actual gain for the month was comparatively small owing to the drastic reduction caused by the discovery of a number of duplications...
...sole spokesman of his one hundred million fellow-citizens. He seems so far never to have lost his head, with abundant opportunity to do so. He has showed the ability to carry out vast measures of relief abroad with the utmost economy of means, and he has executed drastic measured of repression as war emergencies at home without losing he confidence and the respect of those how suffered the discomforts he imposed. He has, in a word, proved himself a wise trustee of national interests at home and abroad. And there is every reason to believe that, if elected...
Following the many changes that were made in the University crews Monday, there was a drastic shake-up yesterday in the 1923 boats. Only three of the former members of the first boat kept their places and the second crew was given an entirely new seating, five men going down from the first boat, two coming up from the third, and the stroke from crew 7. The new line-ups of the first two crews are as follows...
...reaching results of the attempts of certain professional football managers to capitalize the gridiron fame of intercollegiate stars is so great that legislation of a most drastic nature is needed immediately to close the matter now and for all time in favor of the college game...
...Western Conference Association passed drastic rules against professional football at its December meeting, because of the increase in professionalism in the Middle West. One of the most important of these rules is the taking away of any football letters to men engaging in professional football, even after graduation...