Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That there actually exists in the colleges a condition of "moral chaos" is as absurd as it is untrue. Some capable investigator ought to examine this charge against the colleges for the benefit of the general public. Among those who do not know, this will be the only way to dispel an erroneous impression created by a certain type of current fiction on college life...
...They are parties to definite and unusual combinations and agreements, whereby each is obligated to reveal to confederates the intimate details of his business and is restricted in his freedom of action. It seems to me that ordinary knowledge of human nature and of the impelling force of greed ought to permit no serious doubt concerning the ultimate outcome of the arrangements...
...Ohio Society of New York planned a golf tournament on Long Island, decided it would be appropriate to the occasion to plant four buckeye chestnut trees on the links. So they asked Congressman Martin L. Davey of Ohio to get them. Congressman Davey ought to know, because he is Davey the tree surgeon. Mr. Davey replied that he had seen three or four buckeye trees in his life, did not know of any in Ohio, the Buckeye State. There was one, he said, on the Mall in Washington...
...SHOW-OFF?The man who talks so much he ought to be hung up in a cage...
This does not mean that all true men should think alike. Men differ, must differ, and ought to differ; but that does not affect the momentous results of wrong opinions, or the imperative duty of thinking aright. Nor is it any excuse that other people think the same. It is quite as bad, and often worse, to think wrong with the majority as to be in the wrong alone. If truth were so easy to ascertain that all honest-minded people instinctively thought alike the duty to think aright would involve too little effort to need an exhortation. Life...