Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soldiers bathed and their clothes were boiled) were part of the standard military equipment of the World War. Every member of the American Expeditionary Force, before he was permitted to reembark for the U. S., was obliged to strip, scrub and dress in lice-free clothes. Only by such drastic means could Army doctors be sure of preventing the transmission to the U. S. of the louse-carried disease of typhus. And once typhus appears among dirty human beings huddled together in unclean army camps, trenches, jails, poorhouses, hospitals or ships, they die by thousands. Typhus, more than cold...
Most extraordinary feature of the battle over Reorganization-next to last year's battle over the plan to enlarge the Supreme Court, noisiest of the Roosevelt Administration-was its timing. When the President launched his Reorganization Plan 15 months ago, it was far more drastic than the bill the Senate voted for last week. Nationwide reaction was total apathy. When the Reorganization Plan emerged on the Senate floor a month ago, instantaneous reaction of Congress and a large section of the U. S. press and public was a horrified suspicion that Franklin Roosevelt wanted to make himself a dictator...
Behind this evidence of declining confidence in Homer Martin's leadership was a variety of reasons. Recession has meant long layoffs or drastic reductions in hours for thousands of auto workers. Unemployment is always a severe test of the loyalty of union members, particularly so for U. A. W. members, most of whom are new to unionism.* With it came a drop in dues payments so sharp that the international union took all its organizers off the payroll, asked them to serve on a volunteer basis temporarily. Despite claims of increasing enrollment of Ford workers, the union...
Third session: Summary: How should existing legislation affecting labor relations be revised and extended? More drastic steps or an improvement in technique...
...Czechoslovakia, Europe's "danger spot," Professor Langer said, "We can hope that Hitler will rest on his laurels." One possible solution might lie in drastic revision of the war-born state's constitution, he said, since Slovaks as well as Germans have been clamoring for autonomy...