Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fairly general declaration in favor of better swimming facilities was the feature of the answer to the question. "What advantages do you think you ought to have found at Harvard which you have failed to find?" One facetious Senior wails. "I shouldn't have flunked out," while another replies. "Exclusive use of a fast roadster...
...perhaps truer of France than of any representative democracy in the world that personality plays the prominent role in politics. Last week, the greatest interest ought to have been evinced in the Painlevé Government's policy, but it was not. France was far more interested in Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux, "the man who came back...
...Cachin, Communist, berated the Finance Minister because he and noc the Communists had been amnestied. "We ask of you," he pleaded, "not to forget those other unfortunates who await their liberation. With you in power, amnesty ought to be complete...
Pointing his index finger at M. Caillaux, he continued: "You have never ceased to protest your innocence. In that case, you ought to have demanded a retrial. You have preferred to come back here by the back door of electoral amnesty. . . . You doubted the possibility of victory [in the War] and risked the ruin of France. Not only do I refuse my confidence, but I consider your presence on the Government bench a defiance of the dead and living...
...medical education. It is a part of the general movement for the prevention rather than the cure of disease. The Greeks and the Romans depended on their gymnasiums and baths to keep them well, because these were their only preventive measures against disease. Hippocrates wrote that doctors ought to be taught how to take care of themselves so that they could better take care of others. This appreciation of the importance of physical culture, together with much other knowledge of great value, was lost during the middle ages, and the gift of Mr. Vanderbilt is the first step in modern...