Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should burst into print with what is not his best; and the author of "The Powder of Sympathy" will agree with us that he can do better than he has in this case. A writer who can compose charming verses, good poetry, delectable essays, and sincere novels ought to think hard before he is content to publish a volume of enlarged paragraphs and half-in-half jottings...
...that a nation is never finally beaten in war until it believes itself beaten. With not less accuracy it may be said that so long as a man lives he has not failed unless he believes that he has failed. Mark! believes that he has failed, or perhaps one ought to say believes that he is a failure, not is convinced that some particular effort, adventure or plan of his has failed. The difference is vital. The man who runs his head repeatedly into the same stone wall has the kind of head least likely to be affected...
...Somebody ought to give Harry Leon Wilson, author of Merton of the Movies, a year's subscription to Movie Weekly. It runs a delightful page entitled Where Fan Meets Fan?Shiekers a page wherein inarticulate Mertons and Beulah Baxters yet unsung contribute shy accounts of their personal encounters with their idols...
...essentially a gymnasium for the training of the intellect in preparation for mastering, in the professional schools, facts and theories of lasting importance, as you put it in your editorial of June 11, represents, undoubtedly, the current undergraduate point of view. And yet the facts acquired in college ought to be quite as important as those acquired in the grammar schools and distinctly as important, both from the cultural and practical point of view, as any acquired in the professional schools. That literature, the classics, philosophy, history may have a permanent value in themselves scarcely needs an argument...
These young Yale freshmen ought not to be censured too severely. After all, the thought of three more winters in New Haven. R. SIMULANE...