Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Only, get your red pencil after some words that are ready to be molted from your rather exceptional vocabulary. Grandpa "Potent" and a few of his confreres ought to get well-deserved old age pensions...
Character. "We are placing a great deal of emphasis on prosperity. Our people ought to desire to be prosperous, but it ought not to be their main desire. There are other things that they ought to want more. Prosperity is not a cause; it is a result It is all summed up in a single word. It is character...
...undecipherable" papers and notes in English. Mrs. Flanagan was then allowed to proceed, reached Reval, applied to the local Soviet consul, and secured through him the return of her papers. He explained that the local frontier officials had exceeded their authority, patriotically supposing that "nobody ought to be allowed to have as much money as did Mme. Flanagan...
...Furthermore," Mrs. Rogers might continue, "for every hundred Ochses and Pulitzers and Hearsts and Curtises and Howards and Pattersons and McCormicks, there is only one Lucy Cotton Thomas. There ought, simply as a matter of equality, to be far more female Newspaper Proprietors...
While he is in the Museum the vagabond ought not to miss seeing the famous Persian rug known as the "Emperor's carpet" which will be on exhibition until Thursday. Entirely aside from the beauty of the rug itself, much of its interest lies in its history. Woven about 1550, probably at Ispahan, it was used in the palace of one of the Safidian monarchs and was later presented to Peter the Great of Russia. In 1698, Peter, wishing to express his appreciation of the hospitality of Leopold I, Emperor of Austria, to whom he had paid a visit presented...