Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like to read that--it ought to be interesting...
Which are the very words we utttered upon reading the advance notices of Mr. Ellis' book. It ought to be interesting. It would be a relief we thought to read the story of "some unprofitable lives"; it would be a welcome contrast to most biographics where the writer is evidently assuming that his subject can do no wrong...
...character than the Republican candidate. Nine-tenths of popular confidence lies in personality; and the Democratic convention must make it its first care to select a man whose record and utterances are sufficient guarantee that he intends to exercise the powers of the Presidency, unaugmented but undiminished. He ought also to be one in whose hands the great productive interests of the country would feel safe. The temptation at San Francisco will be to try to take up with the leavings at Chicago; to court Johnson's following; to kotow to Gompers or Plumb; to devise planks to win over...
Thus Harvard is confronted obviously with the task of defeating two teams that promise to be far superior to those of last fall. If the material which ought to be available next fall comes through, the problem may be solved, but there is no superabundance of material and we can ill afford to lose any of those whom we are counting on for next November. The coaches can be relied upon to give the last ounce that they possess, but they do not play the game and should not be expected to perform miracles...
...primary results "are a fraud upon the people and mislead thousands of well-meaning persons who have not been brought face to face with the facts." An exact description, which the American people, with their "ancient and inbred honesty and integrity," ought to make an obituary, of this costly humbug device to find out nothing. --New York Times...