Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unless the Centre eleven develops unexpected power, a straight line plunging attack ought to bring victory. As Yale and Princeton scouts will be watching every Harvard formation eagerly expecting to see them uncover one of their complicated trick plays, the coaches wish to guard the secrets of their offense and consequently will not open up such an attack unless it is a necessity...
Then again, it ought to be obvious that the United States will join some form of a league after the election no matter who is elected. Never before have the American people displayed such ignorance and gullibility; they don't realize that at least one, if not both of the great contending platforms were drawn up by some of the shrewdest legal minds in the country and that they were so worded that one could read into it (or out of it) anything he wished. The platforms were drafted on the idea that "the people will believe what they want...
...straw vote tomorrow concerns all the University. It is useless to moralize on the virtue of voting for class officers. The constitutions have finally taken care of the yearly indifference by requiring 60 percent of the class to vote in a valid election. It ought not to be necessary to have to compute percentages in any class election. As to the straw vote there is one consideration: a straw vote is an honest attempt to indicate public opinion. It is worth nothing if everybody does not john in. By not voting you are breaking no rule, but you are showing...
...works in the Elective Office, I feel that I ought to say something to justify the position of the workers in University Hall...
...confidence of the American public in the honesty with which professional baseball is conducted ought not to be permanently shaken by the revelations which come from the grand jury room in Chicago. Two members of the Chicago Club of the American League have confessed that they accepted bribes to "throw" games in the world's series last year. These men and six others who were members of the club at the time have been indicted. But it is to be remembered that no suspicion attaches to the great majority of the league ball players. The men involved in the present...