Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Premier Herriot was backed by all the small states of Europe. All thought that Premier MacDonald had put the cart before the horse?that is, that he had laid the emphasis upon arbitration and disarmament when it ought to have been on security...
...immediate cause is that Gen. Chi wants Shanghai under his thumb. As it is, he thinks the Military Commissioner in Shanghai ought to be a man of his choice. Having tried peacefully to oust Gen. Ho from the Commissionership, he is now resolved to do it by force, which brings him into conflict with Gen. Lu, who is equally determined to preserve his influence in Shanghai...
...Democratic Convention puts a special obligation upon the growing numbers of Americans who swear by no party. They are accustomed to criticize both parties for not bringing forward leaders of a higher character. They often single out in advance the names of men of eminent merit, who, they say, ought to be nominated for the most important offices, but who probably will not be, for the very reason that they stand too much above the ordinary run of politicians to be acceptable to them. But this year the thing that was too good to be true has come...
...Fosdick sailed for England. He crowded the greatest Protestant "chapels" of England. He touched the heart of England. His theology was acceptable to England. Dr. Fosdick returned. He was offered several famous American pulpits. He considered whether his preaching of the gospel ought to be contingent upon a theological bargain such as the Presbyterians demanded. He said nothing, but . . . The rumor started, the rumor spread, the rumor became confident prediction that Dr. Fosdick would cease to grace the lower Fifth Avenue Presbyterian pulpit. Probably, it was said, he would undertake, every Sunday, to go from Union Theological Seminary (upper Manhattan...
Scratch a Californian and you find a tennis player. Last week more tennis laurels went West. The ubiquitous, indefatigable, highly skillful brothers Kinsey-Robert and Howard -convinced all comers at the Longwood Cricket Club (Chestnut Hill, Mass.) that the national doubles wreath ought to hang on the Golden Gate beside Helen Wills' national singles, doubles and Olympic foliage and the numerous, though more withered, prizes of Mary K. Browne, May Sutton Bundy, Maurice E. Mc-Laughlin, "Little Bill" Johnston and "Peck" Griffin...