Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Betting odds have been running 5-2 in favor of the Crimson despite the drastic changes Harlow has made since the defeat by Dartmouth. These changes mean that Harvard is fielding a team in which nearly 50 per cent of the players will be serving as first string regulars for the first time...
...stood Poland's Delegation at Geneva last week. In the name of their Government they endorsed all League sanctions against Italy, including the drastic buy-nothing-from-Italy sanction known as "Proposal No. 3." But, announced the Poles, until Italians complete and deliver to Poland the warships they are now building for her near Trieste, the Polish Government reserves the right not to be bound by any interpretation of sanctions which would prevent her from buying warships from Italy...
...herself she could not have performed more satisfactorily. Now that there is assurance that Mussolini will not be stopped by force. Mr. Laval can continue to announce that a peaceful solution of the Ethiopian affair will be arrived at any day. The gentlemen at Geneva can continue to vote drastic economic sanctions, by which the whole world is supposed to close its doors to Italy, while sanctions are actually adopted by such prolific producers as Ecuador and Spain...
...Frank Bornn, Brooklyn distiller, predicted that "unless the Government does something drastic about it," bootleggers would force legitimate liquor concerns to the wall. "Just another example of how the Roosevelt Administration has fallen down on the job," said Mr. Bornn...
...simply following the lead of his cousin. Representative James W. Wadsworth Jr., stanch Old Guardsman, who had already threatened to grow & sell illegal potatoes on his own ancestral acres in the Genesee Valley. Well did Republican Wadsworth know that New Dealers had had no hand in attaching the drastic, punitive Potato Control Act of 1935 as a rider to the AAAmendments (TIME, Sept. 9). But he also knew that the Act was a natural evolution of their crop restriction program, that whatever indignation could be stirred up against it would fall on their heads. By last week Republican efforts...