Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CRIMSON essay contest announced elsewhere in these columns should be of interest to every Harvard man. A free trip to Europe--the reward of the successful essay--is not to be had everyday. The nature of the essay, moreover, ought to enlist the best thought of every man who is seriously interested in improving Harvard's facilities as an institution of higher learning...
...America is responsible for it all. The English note says clearly she wishes to be paid only what America claims from her. We appreciate the nuance that England gives the affair-namely, that so far as she is concerned she remembers all about the common cause. Anyhow, that ought to help us with America...
...page 8, Jan. 12, item Albert A'hunting, with mangroves and coconut palms on the high plains south of Nairobi and monkeys in juniper and olive trees in that section, you are telling us Travelers' Tales that set us, who are familiar with Africa, a-wondering. You ought to have that flight 'of fancy in the "View with Alarm" column...
...announcement of this year's Sears Prize ought to stimulate new interest is debating as an important means of self-culture which, after all, is simply education in its true sense. It may seem drole to, suggest that the advent of radio is a reason for renewed interest in debating. Yet, with the new importance of the spoken word which radio has promoted, it is quite likely that forensic ability may return to something of its former glory as revealed in a Demosthenes, an Edmund Burke or a Daniel Webster...
...most to the success of the performance is the unusual quality of the sets they are simple, but strikingly original, especially the ticker tape finale to the Wall Street scene, and the Chinatown opium den, which is a realization of one's most extravagant dreams of what a layout ought to look like...