Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Mr. Lovett: " There are many unsuccessful railroads in the United States which ought to be liquidated. Doubtless there are owners of these who are looking to this consolidation law as an opportunity to unload on the strong roads. . . . There will be great difficulty in the stockholders' agreeing upon relative values...
...case in point.) The Dean declares that the Roman church exhibits the old Roman genius for international government, and to prove that it is a static, not a progressive, type of government, he quotes from the Papal syllabus of 1864: "If anyone says the Roman pontiff can and ought to reconcile himself and come to terms with progress, with liberalism, and with modern civilization, let him be anathema." The Dean sees three remarkably good points in this church government-it makes for loyalty, it keeps in touch with human nature through sacraments and music, it works...
...made a frightful mistake in the last war. We drafted men's lives and not capital and labor. We ought to pass a law that automatically, when war is declared, will call every man, woman, boy, and girl between liberal ages to mobilize for war. The one thought to the individual mind should be, "Where can I be of the greatest use to my country and its liberties?" On this basis, admitting that a youth fights his country's battles, a college man's duty is to prepare himself even more than any other youth. College men are the sons...
...that the army that could have gone through would have given the "coup de grace" to the other. They did not dare because they knew they would be whipped and why?--Because in its youth Switzerland had been prepared for the only kind of citizenship on which any country ought to rely. Switzerland with no military burdens, with no standing army, so called, no war for a hundred years, with half the population of Belgium was able to produce on the day of mobilization 21 divisions, and keep inviolate their territory, compared to Belgium with five fine regular divisions...
...What I am most interested in is prevailing upon the Sheriff not to get the troops there. . . . The Sheriff is our friend and he told me: ' Damn them, they (the non-union miners) ought to have known better than to come down here, but now that they are here, let them take what is coming to them...