Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flunk if their helpful teachers were kept out of examination rooms. When this precaution was taken, 75% of the students flunked, created a situation so tense that the Ministry of Education announced fresh examinations for students who failed, added that this time their teachers will be present. After that drastic reforms will be enforced...
...Import Blockade." Adolf Hitler can make an "Economic Tsar" but an "Economic Tsar" cannot always work miracles. Up to last week Dr. Schmitt's Ministry of Economics had used its theoretically boundless powers chiefly to establish an "import blockade" or trade rationing system as drastic as Soviet Russia...
...animal die!" Last week after more than a year of terrorist Nazi bombings in Austria, Chancellor Dollfuss had reluctantly enforced for the first time his recent drastic decree-law providing death for civilians caught with explosives. The first terrorist caught and hanged was neither an Austrian nor a Nazi but a wild-eyed Czechoslovak Socialist, one Josef Gerl, who bellowed from the gallows as the noose was put about his neck, ''Long live Austrian liberty...
...three billion francs to complete the French system of superfrontier defenses by 1940. But in this present year he has saved over four billion francs by discharging 85,000 superfluous Government employes, slashing Government salaries and veterans' pensions, and paring down the State Railways' chronic deficit by drastic reorganization and coordination of rail and road transport. Recognizing that prices must be forced down if the franc is to remain on gold, Gastounet has attacked cautiously the fantastic artificial price of wheat, fixed in France by a previous cabinet at $2.07 per bu. The new fixed price...
...spunky little Dictator had just hurled a drastic ultimatum at his Nazi enemies. He gave them five days in which to hand over all their explosives to his government. After that anyone caught with such a thing in Austria faced sentence of Death, by decree of Engelbert Dollfuss. Well he knew that this decree invited instant bomb attacks on himself and family...