Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Navy Wilbur, interviewed by Washington correspondents last week, recounted to them a little homily about a U.S. marine who served during the Boxer campaign. This marine, said Mr. Wilbur, spoke up and told the commander of certain troops of a certain foreign power that his men ought not to fire at a group of Chinese. The advice was taken, the Chinese spared; but the marine was later rebuked by a U.S. officer for speaking to a foreign officer. "Aw," he replied, "I didn't mean no harm...
...naturally rather isolated from most of the undergraduate activities, get into closer touch with the rest of the college. It has been found that a great many first year men have avoided entering certain activities merely because they did not know what the competition entailed and these meetings ought to clear any doubts on such matters...
...needed for further expansion. Senator Lewis advises the College president, descendant of the founder, to muffle the voice of radical Professor Holden (Sayre Crawley) if he expects government aid. This is done, but the president cannot throttle Madeline (Josephine Hutchinson), granddaughter of the founder, who insists that conscientious objectors ought not to be gaoled and that she has a right to say so, on Morton Hill especially. Deserted by her influential relatives, the girl is forced to choose between indictment on an espionage charge and retraction. She does the noble thing, suffers the fate of every good citizen who lifts...
...that the recent suicides ought not to be seriously considered in the hope of putting a stop to any future occurrences of such sort. We feel merely that the publicity they have received has magnified their importance, and provided manna for alarmists. And it is all because the man in the street is not interested in French requirements or the Tutorial system, but a student suicide is hot stuff, and merely confirms his ideas of college as a haven of hip flasks, atheism, and general immorality...
...some Chinese jade a bath." Then a really potent epigram was coined. Suddenly turning from the tub in which the jades and vases were being bathed, he shook a pipe-stem at the Venus. "I've seen lots of signs in museums in my time, but I guess they ought to stick a 'Hands Off' sign on her all right...