Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...where intellectual freedom should be the guiding spirit, a vital liberty,--freedom of the press,--was infringed. No matter what the students choose to print, faculty censorship should not be resorted to. Suppression by government is justifiable only on grounds of public emergency. In the universities, no consideration whatsoever ought to take precedence over the unrestricted expression of the students, ill-advised or tactless...
Paris newspapers have had a good deal to say about the shame Germany ought to feel for letting her sink to penury. The fame of both Wagner and Liszt is international, and if the companion of one and the daughter of the other is left in indigenous circumstances, should not the whole world be stigmatized as shameless...
Something ought to be done with these incompetent operators. It's criminal! Here's this fool weatherman yesterday went and jammed the damn thing into reverse! SOLAN PLENES
...give our boys culture? American parents will ask: Can you give our boys protection? Surely these two requirements can be provided. We here can offer a year of great eye-opening advantages to boys from Europe and the Orient in the settled life of our boarding schools. And we ought to be able to find, granted the boys are reliable, sufficient protection in European schools. The greatest benefit accruing to both sides would be, in my judgment, not a distinctly scholastic advancement, but a socialized understanding of the country visited. Years hence the convictions of trust engendered in an impressionable...
...case in point ought to help heal the breach in Economics A sections split on the question of a songster as a productive laborer...