Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...excuse for deposing him would be that he ought not to have the double business of presiding all the time? as he now must since there is no Vice President?and of carrying on the arduous duties of Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Committee. He could very well resign the latter post, except that then Senator La Follette would get that post by seniority?a dangerous eventuality for the regulars...
...next to nature!' Next day found me in bed with a severe attack of tonsilitis. Said the Daily News, New York newspaper: 'What our poets need most is not to get next to nature, but to get next to themselves. As for d'Annunzio, he ought at least to have his tonsils removed...
Complaints are, of course, inevitable: And it was certainly unfortunate that 2000 tickets had to be allotted at such a late date, necessarily involving some unfairness. But taken all in all the system adopted this year has proved its worth and its main provisions ought not to be tampered with. What is needed now is careful application of principles...
...mind, or, out of pure scientific interest "in little", the response should help out a good cause. Although table tipping and ghosts have largely gone out of fashion, the belief in spirits, or better, talking spirits, is stronger than ever. And where there is so much smoke, there ought to be a little fire. But Professor MacDougall has limited his study to the field of mental telepathy. Of this "though transference" there are so many evidences that few can doubt the existence of the phenomenon...
...being questioned as to the truth of this sweeping statement, declared most emphatically, "There's no truth to it,--at least as far as Harvard is concerned," Captain Brennan then intimated that he had been a member of the Cambridge Police Force for 40 years and that be ought to know...