Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chal Foeh said that the word invincible means " someone who has not yet been vanquished." Literary circles of Paris discussed this new definition with much heat, but although they felt that M. le Maréchal was wrong they had a sneaky feeling that his meaning ought to be right. Finally, the Forty Immortals of the Académie Française decided that invincible means what le Maréchal Foeh said it meant...
...simply baffled by the way things were turning out. He offered to marry Bee, but she wouldn't accept?she wasn't asking for charity. He knew he ought to be devoted to Cecil?but he just didn't feel that way. The child estranged them. To cap the climax, he found himself arrested and convicted for theft?out on the rock-pile making big ones into little ones. Life had knocked him out in the first round...
...intelligent summaries of what is going on; did something to take the "boy" out of their minds, impressing them with the responsibilities of knowledge and of the life ahead of them. The college is maintained at great cost for the intellectual benefit of our land. The period spent there ought not to be regarded as a sporting event with a little of the classics sandwiched in between like a lettuce sandwich. Above all they should get less college "life" in their heads and more college learning; be taught to use and appreciate the realities of life, rather than to play...
...kill him?business of spiritualistic music offstage?business of the deserter boasting patriotism?and the Widow drops the gun?convinced by special wireless from the lands of ectoplasm that It's a Grand Old Flag, be it Yankee or no, that her son is happy and that everybody ought to love everybody else (except the Germans...
...true, as Hazlitt remarked, that no young man thinks he shall ever die, and it is natural enough that he should not worry very much about a dubious here-after; but still "young Harvard" is not altogether sworn to materialism, and is willing to admit that things spiritual ought to play a greater part in undergraduate life. If a memorial chapel would encourage that side of life, we should "speak up" for a memorial chapel. But, as we remarked in a sentence which the editor has wisely avoided quoting, we do not believe a new chapel would have any such...