Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Qualifications. An ambassador ought to be a diplomat. More than that, he has to be a millionaire?especially at the Court of St. James. It is probably a moderate estimate that the occupant of that post must spend $50,000 a year in excess of his salary as Ambassador. This limits the possible candidates very materially. Judging by income tax returns there are only 10,000 or 15,000 millionaires in the country. Of this number probably half must be deducted for lack of proper education, a third of the rest for being Democrats, and nine-tenths of the remainder...
...this issue are very welcome. With the well-founded general criticism of the Modern Language divisionals last spring and the report of the Scholarship Committee of the Student Council the "situation seems now to call for attention", as Professor Howard says. And it is gratifying to learn that it ought soon to be "brought for discussion...
...though "a cripple" that has been repudiated by its father. Will the father not recognize his duties, he asks, and help to bring up the child. He will find that the United States denies the imported paternity. But he expresses suggestively and courageously a European attitude of which we ought to take note. New York Times
...regard to the Republican Presidential nomination. If it be true, as rumored that President Coolidge will consent to be a candidate for the nomination, and if it be true, as likewise rumored, that Governor Pinchot has Presidential aspirations, a situation will develop upon which a Senator from Pennsylvania ought not to express himself prematurely, or otherwise than after serious reflection...
...families-how he finally established his innocence even in the eyes of his pompous brother-in-law- is told through some 400 leisurely and amusing pages, spiced with the particular brand of Cape Cod humor that has made Mr. Lincoln a bestseller. The happy ending is just as it ought...