Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This time it is Colonel Charles R. (Break It Up) Apted '06 who has destroyed the Yard Peace. Quite inadvertently, he was forced to take drastic steps with the Yard skunk situation yesterday. Two firearms, a 38-calibre rifle and a pistol, emptied their loads in the general vicinity of the animal whose protests quickly dispersed onlookers. It was not until the fumigators finished with Massachusetts Hall late last night that the Yard became tenable again...
Nevertheless Dr. Perry and his committee triumphed on three other points. The conference voted approval of their recommendations that no new bishops be elected, that the project of stated terms for bishops be abandoned, that bishops be removable for "inefficiency, unacceptability or worldliness." This last, the most drastic change in church law in 150 years of Methodism, was highly pleasing to advocates of reunion between the Northern and Southern churches...
Besides the story which tells of the "foiled CRIMSON attempt" and an editorial to the same effect, Lowell House receives gratuitously free publicity for their dance and the H. A. A. is threatened with drastic reorganization along the lines of N. Y. U. Humor is sought through the time-worn device of placing incorrect head over a story and the final brilliant touch is the review of the Crimson-Lampoon parody by Robert K. Lamb...
...concrete evidence that Dr. Tugwell meant what he said, his critics point to the start which has been made in regimenting agriculture under AAA, to the strict codes which have been forced on agricultural industries, and to the Tugwell bill to make the Pure Food & Drug Act much more drastic and comprehensive, apply it to advertising as well as labeling. To prove that the present Food & Drug Act is already drastic enough to penalize honest men for mistakes. Dr. Tugwell's opponents unearthed a list of judgments obtained under that act and published by the Department of Agriculture last...
...advertising, originally "one of the most offensive measures which was ever introduced in so far as proper advertising is concerned." Now, he reported, the modified and amended bill is ''reasonably satisfactory [but] has not the approval of the Department of Agriculture because it is not sufficiently drastic to meet Dr. Tugwell's desire...