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Word: ought (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...want Senator Butler to know how you feel about it. All of you who think the Senate rules ought to be changed, stand up. Come on. Get up and say so right now. With more than human unanimity, all rose up, all roared, all sat. Said the Vice President: "I knew Senator Butler would stand up. Senator Gillett would stand up, too, if he were here. He told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dawesology | 4/27/1925 | See Source »

...paying guest, and with the proceeds of this happy alliance furnished up the Holyoke Street -club- house, painted the theatre, hung all the old posters in the wrong places, and found themselves with a lot of Sophomore talent. W. S. Wilson '27, is a Sophomore. He ought to make All-American before he is through, if he can hold the delightful gift he has of dressing and looking and acting like a shy, determined little red-haired cutie without the slightest trace of the female impersonator. He can dance. There is no doubt that he does dance. His dancing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hollister Finds "Laugh It Off" Great Success--Says Dancing and Acting of Wilson Feature Pudding Show | 4/16/1925 | See Source »

...deserves the serious attention of urban dwellers all over the country. Reports of the effects of a city on abnormal children are not lacking, but so far, no one has investigated the results of urban life on normal children. If it is carried out thoroughly, the Chicago plan ought to show what Chicago people think a citizen should be and also what they think their city is doing to children...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHICAGO CITIZENSHIP | 4/14/1925 | See Source »

...know most people think of my father as hard, severe, cold-blooded and harsh, but he is none of those things. He has a marvelous sense of humor and has his tongue in his cheek at many things that happen in Washington. He is a good storyteller. I ought to know, for I've been listening to his stories since I was knee-high to a duck. And he has wit. His opponents have learned that and his friends have enjoyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Intellect | 4/13/1925 | See Source »

...which has waited only upon the establishment of that fact. Since the new system and that alone, for courses have changed but little, is responsible for this highly desirable stimulation of undergraduate study, the time has come for more serious efforts to broaden its scope. The first of these ought to be directed toward a radical reduction in course requirements...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEANS AND ENDS | 4/11/1925 | See Source »

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