Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...protective committee of longs, smarting from their scolding, howled for a more drastic penalty from the shorts. Said its Chairman Carlos G. Garcia: "This ruling is extremely unfair. It shows the rankest kind of favoritism on the part of the Exchange officials. It shows extreme partiality toward a group of professional traders, and convinces us that the public has no chance on the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange...
...accused were too eminent to be tried in Moscow, although in Moscow drastic Judge Vassily Ulrich recently ordered 36 of the 117 executions decreed to avenge Dictator Stalin's assassinated "Dear Friend Sergei" Kirov (TIME, Dec. 10). Last week Judge Ulrich arrived in Leningrad in the midst of exceedingly select Communist company-including such prisoners as Comrade Lev Kamenev (brother-in-law of Great Exile Trotsky) and Comrade Grigory Zinoviev, famed "Bomb Boy of Bolshevism," and personal bodyguard of Lenin during the late Dictator's years of exile...
...unconfirmed report yesterday had it that the new Crimson coach, Dick Harlow plans no drastic shakeup in the coaching staff next fall. This rumor, which was given some credence in athletic circles, was to the effect that only Myles Lane, Varsity backfield coach and Cliff Gallagher, Freshman mentor, will not return to their present posts next fall...
...succeeded in inventing a conundrum which reduces to absurdity a whole mass of ideas that have had great vogue during the depression. . . . They all derive from the same notation, spent which is more that they if would people be richer. worked . . less . The depression itself is the most drastic limitation of production ever experienced. The population on relief is the largest number of people ever supported in idleness. If there were any truth whatever in the theory that a nation can become prosperous by not producing, then the depression itself should have made us roaring rich...
...kerosene-lit apartment, as ex-Governor Moret packed up to leave last week, he found a crinkled prediction penned to him in high excitement four years ago by fox-bearded Montagu Collet Norman who is now in his 15th year as Governor of the Bank of England. "Unless drastic measures are taken to save it, the capitalist system throughout the civilized world will be wrecked within a year," wrote Governor Norman to Governor Moret in 1931. "I should like this prediction to be filed for future reference...