Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This drastic measure saved Marseille. By 11 p. m. the fire was under control, by next morning damage was estimated held down to $1,500,000. The death toll at latest reports...
...among these Cabinet shifts made as the Prime Minister prepared to go before the reassembled House of Commons this week, was the giving of a post to "Ruthless" Sir John Anderson who, when Governor of Bengal, put the fear of the Raj into its notorious political thugs and terrorists. Drastic Sir John was given a velvet Cabinet sinecure, Lord Privy Seal, but is supposed to have been put in to ginger up, by his personal influence, Sir Thomas Inskip. the somnolent Minister for the Co-Ordination of Defense...
Meanwhile, Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare made the Cabinet's only drastic move, announced that next time there is a war scare the State will force upon the owners of the stately homes of England "compulsory billeting" of refugees from the cities...
...specified in a published Nazi list. Jewish men whose present names differ from those on the list must now add Israel, Jewish women must tag on Sarah. Reported by many correspondents as also planned for the New Year by Germany's rampant anti-Semitic rulers was a more-drastic-than-ever decree forbidding Jews to work for Aryans, to own or work in factories, banks, wholesale houses. For the Third Reich's 500,000 Jews, half on relief, the new decree will mean certain pauperdom...
Five of a Kind (Twentieth Century-Fox) indicates that something drastic will have to be done about the Dionne Quintuplets. In this, their third full-length screen appearance, they give no impression of taking their profession seriously. In the first place, none of the quintuplets has bothered to learn English. In the second place, what they speak, although it sounds vaguely like French, is really some sort of squirrel talk, whose complete unintelligibility to outsiders appears to delight rather than distress the Dionnes...