Word: ought
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...seems to me in consideration of the interest which the students have taken in this building, that they ought to have the opportunity of contributing towards its ornamentation. It will be a home for many of them and they would naturally like to feel that they had given some thing towards its completion. They could appropriately provide by subscription for the extra cost of the carving in wood and stone at the Harvard end of the living room, or for any other form of ornament considered necessary by the architect. The plain wainscoting has already been generously provided...
...account for the absence in modern Spanish of sibilant letters, with which all other modern languages are well supplied. Two hundred years ago it appears Spanish was as rich in sibilants as any other language. This is proved by the fact that Spanish is based on Latin, and, accordingly, ought to have as many sibilants as any other language of Latin origin. Moreover, an examination of old texts and manuscripts shows that sounds were used that were the equivalent of siblants...
Photographs may be very beautiful, if the objects they represent are beautiful or are beautifully lighted and posed; but photography has none of the functions of creative art. Creative art consists in an interpretation of things in relation to some moral interest; it ought to transform or idealize its subject in many ways, so as to bring out its tendency or meaning. But photography, like memory, only transforms things unintentionally and because it can not help itself. The cause of any change here is a weakness in the machinery of reproduction; it cannot be an imaginative bias, since the reproduction...
...Association of its legitimate support. The men who bought these tickets did so with the distinct understanding that they alone were entitled to its benefits. The only way that the Association can afford to make this low price is to have every man use his ticket as he ought...
...game tomorrow, the team expects and ought to have continuous cheering whenever its defense is taxed. C. D. DALY...