Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time ever comes when it is apparent that the people, as a people do not propose to enforce it, then I venture to say they will take it out of the Constitution, and they ought to. No provision of this Constitution ought to be permitted to stand indefinitely against the will of the American people...
...Jones, Yale football mentor, after the Harvard-Yale game had the following comment to make on scouting: "I think the elimination of scouting would be a good thing for the game, but I don't think it ought to be mandatory. If non-scouting pacts are arranged, they ought to be personal agreements between coaches...
...characteristic of Mr. Baker that, while other crime commissioners were talking last week about sharper juries, harsher laws, fewer pardons and more citizen vigilantes with sawed-off shotguns, he was trying to put criminals into philosophical perspective, where he saw them as sick people whom a humanitarian society ought to cure. A humanitarian philosopher, a man so keen and kindly that he cannot bear to read Mark Twain because that heartless author put his character at such unfair disadvantages?could such a man be nominated to govern a nation? It would not be unheard of, even...
...place as the intelligence department of the Harvard squad demands, my presence here. John Quinn Knoss is to scout Penn during the first half and tell the boys what to do in the second half, while I scour them in the second half and tell the boys what they ought to have done in the first half...
...been said with much truth, that when a man exclaims. "Something ought to be done about this", he is in imminent peril of making a fool of himself. This remark holds rather well in practically any case; nowhere more timely than in matters dealing with the more theoretical aspects of existence-- education for example. So keeping the obvious moral well in mind, when the Vagabond decided to make a few observations anent the current tutorial system, anent the current tutorial discussion--entirely unofficially be it understood--he decided also not to urge that something should be done about...