Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Industries was perfectly accurate. We made a personal search in four selected industrial establishments for young people of marked promise. We found a certain number of boys who were commended by their foremen and superintendents and brought them over to our Psycho-Educational Clinic for intelligence tests. The results ought not to have been taken as showing that anyone we found is a genius. Intelligence tests do not reveal genius and are not intended to prove that those who rank high on them are going to set the world on fire. A high score in an intelligence test indicates...
...course, we should be broadminded; and priggery ought to have no place in our attitude toward the stage. We are not, however, called upon to countenance the grossest vulgarity and almost absolute nakedness...
...opera. Nevertheless, he is an efficient and successful maestro of impresario, bringing back his San Carlo Opera Company season after season with powers undiminished and spirits unabated. He may possibly hate music, but he loves his company and lives for it alone-which is perhaps all that one ought to demand...
...know what there is down there and we ought to; that's the point. I have been doing preliminary experimentation for eight years and I am certain that such a shaft is a practical engineering project and that the only thing necessary to make it a reality is the money. It might be possible to go deeper than twelve miles...
...commercial project and there is no money to be made out of it by myself or any one else but, from a scientific standpoint, it should be undertaken as something equally as important as polar exploration. The spot where the shaft should be sunk ought to be determined by geologists...