Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...impossible that, animated as both are by such sentiments, we should fail to make the Entente effective and fruitful of results which it can and ought to bear in order that Europe as a whole should find once more peace, security and freedom to work...
Altogether, this plan makes certain whatever sum is subscribed originally by the members of the Class, if the premiums are paid; and it ought to be possible to form in the first few years out of college a good habit of paying premiums regularly which will last the rest of the twenty-five. It is not necessary to point out what every graduate owes to the University every graduate best knows that himself. But it is difficult to imagine any method of paying this debt more conveniently or more equitably than by the endowment insurance plan. It is about...
...Register is to continue to be published--and there is every need for it in the fall--the Student Council which is, after all, responsible for it, ought to insure, not only a first-rate, accurate, interesting Register, which it does, but the prompt publishing and distribution of the Register, in which it now woefully fails. This can be done by abandoning the fall competitions for the Register Board, and appointing an entire Register Board each spring which will be responsible to the Student Council...
...Duchess of Hamilton, inspired by seeing her son, Marquis of Douglas, "pummel" the "Bermondsey Pet," professional pugilist, in a six-round contest, decided that international disputes ought to be settled by fisticuffs. Said she: "As I watched the fight the thought uppermost in my mind was, what a pity we cannot revert to the Viking days when tribal disputes were settled by fights between picked men. If we could only choose 100 boxers from each side and let them decide, how much better it would be than awful war. . . . Boxing teaches young men to take hard knocks, and self-control...
...America herself, should have been paid by Germany. When France is giving the warmest reception to the American financial experts conducting the examination here it is scarcely the time to impugn France's good intentions in an extreme manner." Le Temps said: "It seems to us that France ought to take the initiative in new negotiations on the War debts. She could begin, as did England, by approaching the United States. First the exact total of the American claim on France should be fixed, which would be a matter of bookkeeping. Then could be discussed bases of settlement. Effective...