Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perfectly unable to understand the point of view that we are thereby giving natural cause of suspicion, to friendly nations in the Pacific. We ought to assume that other nations who have fleets in the Pacific exercise a little common sense on the problem, and I believe their Governments do, as do the majority of their populations...
Among people of mediocre intelligence, Sir William Osier is chiefly remembered today as "the doctor who said that a man at 60 ought to be chloroformed." OSLER RECOMMENDS CHLOROFORM AT SIXTY blared the newspapers of the U. S. and Canada on a certain February morning in 1905. Dr. Osier had delivered an address in Baltimore the night previous. This is what he actually said...
...larger, mixed body of the National Union of Teachers, meeting at the same time, scoffed: . . . Silly and unhealthy, the segregation of boys and girls in schools. . . . It is a principle which ought to be relegated to the madhouse - a product of the War and pugnacious prancings...
...have been a reader of your paper since the early numbers and have been recommending it to my friends, but your issue of June 1 has a paragraph that you ought to be ashame...
Much can be done, if only it doesn't rain. There's the Pekin Government to overthrow as usual. True, no one knows exactly why the government ought to be overthrown. It hasn't passed a prohibition law, or denied that all men are born free and equal, or declared for municipal ownership of laundries. But why be pedantic about such matters? It's the principle of the thing that counts--principle and force of habit. In June every Chinaman just naturally marches on Pekin...