Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...skeleton, which might have seemed appropriate. The coffin contained instead a handsome disemboweling knife beautifully encased in a white leather scabbard and resting on a ceremonial tray. By this expensive present the Kamiya Keiseisha (Opposition Party) pointedly conveyed to the Premier their opinion that he is a perjurer and ought to commit harakiri...
...honor of the eleven collegians selected by the Sun as "the All-American Football Team of 1925." This year the Sun proposes to give a similar dinner for the eleven students whom that newspaper shall select as an "All-American Team for 1926." In our judgment this project ought to be abandoned; no such dinner should be given...
...expression of opinion, and opinions differ. The Sun is an enterprising newspaper, but its selections represent only itself. The tendency to write up individuals and play down the team has gone far enough. We need to start current in the other direction. The "star system" of the stage ought not to be transported to the stadium...
...would be useless to address invitations to certain institutions, the paper might still give its dinner, but its choice of an All-American team might seem some what disproportionate. Anyhow we hope the colleges themselves will reject these overtures as violations of the spirit for which intercollegiate football ought to stand. Boston Herald...
...these days of strict scrutiny of mankind hardly a thing exsists in regard to which some one does not cry, "Something ought to be done about it!" The latest wrinkle in reforms has been brought to light by Le Figaro in the shape of a conference at Amsterdam to do something about the severely detrimental economic effects of rheumatism. The statisticians of this gathering have discovered that by limbering up the world three million days would be saved annually; they have the will to accomplish this result, "mais comment?" as Le Figaro concludes...