Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge has been invited to California. He ought to accept and he should visit this Mojave desert. On a hillside, below a big rock, he would see a complicated, ingenious bulwark of small branches, each one carrying thorns, protecting the hole of the desert pack...
...parents, too; forceful things, revealing, for a layman, an extraordinary acquaintance with current science, literature, philosophy. His sermon on the amphibian is classic. Are we to be sprawlers, floppers, drifters, no better than our amphibian ancestors? Let there be precise, controlled movement. Can you do what you ought, when you ought, whether you want to do it or not? Amphibians . . . the parable, under an orator's magic, progresses...
Among the lectures which the Student Vagabond has under consideration for tomorrow are four which ought to offer tempting food to the most diverse tastes. Each vagabond must choose for himself...
...Somebody ought to take the Harvard boys aside and give them a few lessons in manners. Last winter, when the compulsory chapel dispute was raging at Yale, they sent down to New Haven on special trucks an edition of the CRIMSON in which they told Yale just what ought to be done about it. Saturday, with Princeton as their guest, they distributed at the gates of their Stadium copies of the Lampoon, in which they expressed their opinion of Princeton, and a most unsavory opinion...
...must be remembered that an average daily attendance of seventy-five means that several hundred men attend on an average once or twice a week throughout the year). But those who go, go to worship; they do not go under constraint, as at Williams, nor because they think they ought to do their duty to God, to country, and to Yale, as at least some men are doing at New Haven...