Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your magazine, which I have taken for some time, gave me a hearty laugh some weeks ago in your entertaining comment upon the Boston Herald's account of my death. I regretted disappointing many excellent people; but I don't think a man ought to die just to satisfy others; it should be his own private affair...
...Spanish-American war "made" the New York Journal-TIME, Aug. 16), is revered and propitiated by editors everywhere. Nevertheless, Dr. Shillito pressed his point. "What is needed," he said, "is not propaganda for peace so much as a reasonable and continuous interpretation of the nations to each other. They ought to know the best in each other-not the worst...
...Philadelphia, 10,000 dentists came last week. They were attending the Seventh International Dental Congress, over which Dr. William H. G. Logan of Chicago presided. Notable remarks: "Only one college in North America, the Toronto Dental Institute, has a course for dental assistants. This training ought to raise the service to a profession like nursing."- Juliette A. Sauthard of Manhattan...
...Mayville, N. D., a small town of about a thousand inhabitants (formerly my home), there lives a man by the name of Otto Egge. Both names are reversible. That ought to be a "name-in-a-good-many- million!" . . . By the way, as one who each week reads your magazine from cover to cover, let me also add my hymn of praise to the swelling chorus...
...statesman. He is battling for renomination in the Democratic primaries (equivalent to election) against the father of 16 children. This man with these 16 potent arguments in his favor, is Judge Richard B. Russell, whose advocates say that "a man who has done so well by his country ought to be rewarded with the U. S. Senatorship...