Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Doubtless there are people lazy in mind who find TIME useful, but nobody who thinks for himself ought to waste his time on it when there is a good paper to read. This for your information...
...professional plan is to be retained certain changes are desirable. The new haphazard supervision by the Council should be replaced by more effective control. If necessary, it ought not to be impossible for a professional editor to complete that part of the volume containing the record of the previous year in the late spring or summer, as well as the soliciting of advertisements, leaving only the directory of names to be completed in the fall...
...everything from a good mail man to a bad boy scout, as foreman of a pressroom. We quarrel with this picture on grounds of professional honesty. When a press room no matter what press room assumes some such motto as Love, Honor and Purity then someone is lying and ought to have his mouth washed out with soap. The type setter's quartet broadcasting "Sweet Adcline" before the evening's work, for all the world like a lot of Big Brothers from Station WEEL was about as indigestible a thought as the movies have put over in some time...
...whose books he has illustrated, pressmen who have interviewed him, artists who have asked him to dinner, ladies' clubs before which he has lectured on his own life and works. Thousands of sincere admirers have said to him: "Oh, Mr. Pennell, you do talk so splendidly you really ought to put it all down in a book." This remark never failed to please him because he knew that it was true. Now he has acted upon it.* He has told what he remembers of Philadelphia in Civil War days, when he was going to a Quaker School. ("Teacher, what...
Waterways. "The Government made an agreement during the War to take over the Cape Cod canal, under which the owners made valuable concessions. This pledged faith of the Government ought to be redeemed...