Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What valid objections, if any, exist against having the American Congress now declare that the Philippine Islands are, and of right ought to be, free and independent...
...What is soon to happen at the Peace Table will depend more upon the fibre of the conquering nations than upon Germany and its beaten vassals. It ought not to be difficult for people who have suffered so much to realize that the lustful spirit now seemingly exorcized from Germany, prevails everywhere more or less and that humanity is to gain nothing lasting by all its sacrifices if, on any pretext, greed, ambition, and injustice are again to be enthroned in other places...
FitzGerald gilded Omar Khayyám, and Elihu Vedder's now classic illustrations have regilded FitzGerald. Vedder is academic, imaginative, poetic, and about everything else that he ought to be under the circumstances, except Persian. He is Roman, but not romantic...
...Geer, on "The Longevity of Athletes". This has always been a cause for dispute between those who believe that athletes build up their bodies and live longer than the ordinary mortal and those who deal in "athletic hearts" and high blood pressure. The study of "Fool Rules" ought to bring out a number of those unreasonable, often inane regulations which sometimes incite players to violence and expose innocent umpires to general scorn. Altogether, the report of the Conferences is something to which the athletically minded public can look forward with a great deal of pleasurable anticipation...
...Lamont believes that the private school man, usually more forehanded than the public school man, "Overdoes "athletics, the social life, loafing and "other extra-curriculum activities." He ought to study more. The public school man needs and ought to have a reasonable part in the "extra-curriculum," the so important little businesses and pleasures, no doubt. Many students haven't the time; many are indifferent to all the bustle of their classmates. Apart from pecuniary compulsion or physical inefficiency, everybody does what he wants. A great modern college is a heterogeneous, cosmopolitan community which can't be made over into...