Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expense was spared in building Widener. The great vault of the Reading Room is gratifying to the artistic eye, and it helps materially to make the room healthful for study; yet despite these advantages the Widener atmosphere is none too pure. If the ventilating apparatus is at fault, if ought to be given immediate attention, and until its deficiencies are remedied the attendants might very well adopt the cruder method of periodically opening the windows...
...Before I went to Palestine last year, I was a confirmed Zionist, but now I think that the Jews ought not to have Palestine", said Professor Dana Carleton Munro, of Princeton, in the course of a lecture on "Impressions of Syria", before the History Club last evening...
Parasites. Francine Larrimore belongs in this play about as much as she belongs in the Chinese army. Miss Larrimore is a vivid young woman with a drawl. She is the kind that ought to go suddenly into an Apache dance with the District Attorney and stab her way back to the underworld. Against a Bar Harbor background she jars perceptibly. Still that was the way the whole play went. It was a cheap conception by Cosmo Hamilton, probably having originally a sound satirical value. The latter was played out of it by a poor cast and burlesqued...
...luncheon party where some were New Englanders ar.cl some were not-up spoke one of the sheep and said: 'I wonder if President Coolidge will run again in 1928?' ". . . Up spoke one of the goats: 'Well, you as a New Englander ought to know better than any of us.' Then another New Englander had this to say: 'Right after Mar. 4, 1929, Mr. Coolidge will become President of Amherst College...
...seems to me that we ought to have a good season if everything goes well. We certainly have a good nucleus of letter men left. Beals ought to have a very big year. He should find that his experiences on the football team has helped him a good deal. This statement may seem rather ridiculous but it's surprising how the gruelling punishment of football does aid one in all other sports...