Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...near dinner time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says, 'Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at 5, gentlemen.' 'So do I,' says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three, and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch: 'Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen? I rather think, so far as I am concerned, gentlemen, -I say, I rather think...
...they were not affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. Fourteen-year-old Binnie Green, who weighs 69 pounds, told of getting $4.95 for 60 hours' work a week in the mills. North Carolina's ponderous Senator Overman patted her on the head, and said: "This child ought to be in school." Then he backed away into the Senate, there to renew his warnings of Communistic agitation in his State...
...friendship than many a football classic or track meet. Much of present day college administration centers in the dean's office, and it is here that most measures which directly affect the student body have their origin. Anything, therefore, which brings the occupants of these key positions together ought also to result in a closer coordination of the aims and methods of the colleges involved. During today and tomorrow Harvard has the privilege and the responsibility of playing host to a gathering which has unique potentialities for influencing eastern college life...
...Everybody knows that the laws ought to be respected...
...would limit the scope and possibilities of the Advocate as an organ of student literary expression. New quarters to meet the needs of the day are not only desirable but necessary, but these quarters should definitely remain those of a publication and an over emphasis of their social usefulness ought not to follow...