Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seems to me," the wrote, "that such an inaccurate and unwarranted generalization, as I am profoundly convinced it is, ought not to be cited with the imprimatur of Harvard University, to be here and abroad quoted by sensational writers in the press and bring reproach and discredit upon the administration of justice in our country. It is true that we are in need of reform in all branches of our procedural and substantive law to meet new conditions, but our present conditions. I do not believe, are a disgrace to civilization, but rather the inevitable outgrowth of the changes which...
With his deadly flat aerial thrusts and his speedy end-running, he ought to add considerably to the versality of the Crimson attack in the battle against the Blue...
...wistful females and bold intelligentsia fond of facing facts to the depths of their little minds about it. And he has not succeeded in proving anything conclusively. Nobody should have expected that he would. And yet, you know, it's quite certain that Sex is a great thing. There ought to be a play about...
...narrow fields and rise above them to give a very fair performance. There is a retired divorce court judge, a bachelor of eighty-one, at an age when foolishness is characteristic and wisdom remarkably forthcoming. There is the host, an anti-feminist who of course gets caught, and who ought really to have known better at his age. There is the bachelor, who was jilted thirty years ago, and the married man of fifty who was happy until he quarreled with his wife over a coffee bean. They all wrangle without feminine let or hindrance to show how bad undiluted...
...There Ought...