Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact, this useless interregnum will be costly and dangerous whenever it occurs in troublous and critical times. In normal times we may overlook the waste it involves; but it becomes a matter of first rate moment in such times as this. We ought to take advantage of the present demonstration of its unpleasant possibilities to end it. Congress should submit an amendment to the states without unnecessary delay. Chicago Tribune
...Willard is right. Americans ought to be thankful for their lot and confident even in the midst of difficulties and losses. We have now a plenty, but they will be overcome. The restorative powers of the country are unparalleled and they have not been impaired. --Chicago Tribune
...heard the calls for help from the farmers. It proposes to answer them by means both direct and indirect. A resolution reviving the War Finance Corporation has passed the House and the Senate and is now on the way to the President. II Mr. Wilson does what he ought to do he will sign this bill against the advice of Secretary of the Treasury Houston, thereby giving the Corporation $380,000,000 from the public treasury with which to finance the export of agricultural products to foreign markets and thus enable the farmers to get prices that will cover production...
...predicated on the wish. Speaking of Mr. Eamon de Valera, the admirable specimen, asserts that "The President has encouraged and even secretly inaugurated, societies that are avowedly and actively hostile to the British Government," and that "it is time that those activities should be stopped. And why? And how? Ought de Valera be stopped for the same reasons for which Franklin might have been ejected from France when he went seeking financial aid and recognition for the United States of America? The arguments which yesterday were employed in defense of Liberty and Freedom are today pressed into the service...
...capacity. This reflects an appreciation on the part of many College men of the value of regular exercise. The increasing number of men who use the various facilities for exercise indicates that some time in the future there will be a need for a large indoor plant that ought to include, among other things, basketball courts, two swimming pools, one for general swimming and for competition, and the other for instruction purposes, a hockey rink, a baseball cage large enough for a regulation diamond with an opportunity for infield practice during the winter season, indoor track facilities, a special apparatus...