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Word: ought (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...games can be scheduled by Yale, Harvard and Princeton. Harvard has invited Purdue and Indiana to play at Cambridge next fall and Ohio State will play at Princeton. While Harvard probably will not care to return to Lafayette and Bloomington in 1928 because of the small gate receipts. Princeton ought to find that no reason for not being, willing to play at Ohio State in 1928. In fact, such a game would draw the biggest crowd that ever saw a Princeton team play, for the Ohio State stadium is larger by 80,000 seats than the Princeton and Harvard stadiums...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 3/8/1927 | See Source »

...have just read TIME, Feb. 14, and hasten to correct what might be taken as the wrong impression of our attitude toward farming. I do not believe that farming is "obsolescent foolishness," neither do I think, nor have ever said that the farmer "ought to be put in a museum along with the dodo and the cobbler and the individual candlestick maker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 7, 1927 | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

...Premier Baldwin kept from falling between the two stools of his party (Moderate-Conservative, and Tory), but his old fashioned brier pipe has become so much a part of the British scene that last week the King-Emperor remarked, on seeing a mammoth pipe exhibited as an advertisement, "They ought to give it to Baldwin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: The Cabinet | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

...effect by springing a booby trap on him - a loose board that makes a loud bang. In that emotional condition we find that his stomach has crawled up the length of several vertebrae. A year later, as a sophomore, we find his stomach back in place, where it ought to be. When you hear a woman describe her fright by saying, 'My heart came right up in my mouth,' she is really describing the cavortings of her stomach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Barometric Cadavers | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

...beat effort. "It's 10 feet longer than the cage I built up in Andover and it's got the biggest skylight of any cage I know of. The track's two feet narrower than the one up there, but it's 10 laps to a mile and that ought to be plenty for anybody...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foreman's Next Job Will Not be Building Baseball Cages--Wants a Hard Job--"Nothing to This," He Declares Scornfully | 3/2/1927 | See Source »

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