Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Ashurst interjected: "The press ought to say that it saw a Senator who was both windy and foggy at the same time...
...that President Coolidge will "declare his unwillingness" to accept the Republican 1928 nomination, that Republicans who try to force a third term on the President are looking for fatal trouble, that only a Wet Republican can carry necessary New York State against Governor Smith or Governor Ritchie, that Prohibition ought to be the issue...
Perhaps Cathleen, Marchioness of Queensberry, had not heard the warning of Emile Fuchs (see above) that she ought to have at least a baronet* in her family tree to succeed as an artist in the U. S. She is only the daughter of a Scotch commoner, famed Anglo-U. S. Portraitist Harrington Mann...
...Bill are opponents of all government-going-into-business schemes. The biggest farmer in the world is Thomas D. Campbell of Montana. As an important example he is vital to any farm discussion. He says, in effect, that the very idea of "a farmer" is obsolescent foolishness, that he ought to be put in a museum along with the dodo and the cobbler and the individual candlestick maker...
Jack Publisher and scores of his brothers have come into being since patient monks copied manuscripts. Jack sends his wares to men who keep book stores. Jack and these men then put their wits and purses together to help Dick discover the book he wants, or ought to want. Dick is the man who reads the book that the storekeeper bought from the agent who came with news of the writer that sold his work to be printed and bound and distributed by the house that Jack Publisher built...