Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great battle. The Navy seconds beat Pennsylvania by two lengths last Saturday, while the Red and Blue University eight was trailing by five lengths. A victory for the Watts stroked shell next Saturday, seems a bit too much to hope for, but if the Harvard crew improves as it ought to the race should be a battle. The Crimson eight averages more than 183 pounds per man, and if the crew can get together smoothly the power will tell...
...race is getting soft in its cities; but you ought to see some of the mothers I could show...
...their defence. It is because of the consideration one must feel for this attitude, which is widespread, as well as because of the high regard in which I hold both of these distinguished leaders, that I venture to recall certain facts regarding the history of our courts which ought to make for a better understanding between the opposing views...
Ethical propositions are usually less involved than those of theology. If a practice has a good purpose and if it is reasonably certain that its practical consequences will be generally valuable, then it ought to be adopted as a principle of conduct. From this standpoint, what can be said of birth control...
These arguments, brief as they are, ought, it seems to me, to show that conscious regulation of the birth rate is a highly ethical proposal. I shall say no more. If civilization advances, it will come. The forces on the other side are the forces of ignorance, prejudice, and superstition. They are the same forces that caused the poor savage of the Polynesian wilds to die of fright because he ate the king's food unwittingly. Are we to be ruled forever by tabu