Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prohibition law is awfully hard on students," said Officer Joseph Parks of the Cambridge police force when accosted by a CRIMSON reporter in the small hours of yesterday morning on his Mount Auburn Street beat. "An exception ought to be made allowing them to keep something in their rooms for medicinal purposes...
This merely illustrates one of the cases in which a standard grade-curve must inevitably work hardship to those who are near the danger line. But the conclusion ought to be obvious. If no system can be devised for distributing grades justly and on exactly the same basis - grades cannot be fairly used to decide either discipline or distinction...
Professor Holcombe pointed to one field of public life, however, which ought to offer increasing attractions to young university graduates as a result of the development of bureaucracy. "From the policemen on street corners to the heads of great departments in Washington bureaucrats are constantly gaining. This field of activity must be made to offer as promising a career as positions in Congress or in the state and national courts...
...mistakes me for another eminent personage [ex-Premier Caillaux] whose shadow creeps timidly around certain political meetings and is not very strongly repulsed by M. Herriot and his party. . . . When the Government's adversaries have the courage to vote publicly against it, the Government will know what it ought...
...Minister of Finance Junnosuuke Inouye said: "Japan understands the true meaning of Bolshevism, and further delay in establishing trade and diplomatic relations will be harmful." The Mainkhi of Osaka said: "Russia has now gained a strategic advantage over Japan owing to the recognition accorded her by Britain. . . We ought to be very attentive to the changing situation in Europe." The Tokyo Asahi said: "Woe to our statesmen who have not the keen insight to discern the trend of the times. It is a great pity the State ministers have not the courage to carry out their own convictions. Jealousy...