Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House breakfast next morning, the President with the aid of good friend Senator Butler, decided that something-ought-to-be-done. Secretary of Agriculture Jardine and Secretary of Commerce Hoover were summoned. They thought so, too. A Coolidge statement was sent out urging agrarian reform on a "sound basis." Congress was urged to adopt the Fess Bill which would set up a co-operative marketing bureau, financed by a $100,000,000 fund...
...would be nominated by any competent tribunal to any legislative body at all. . . . Some of these ladies were made peeresses because otherwise there was no prospect of a male heir. Many of them have proved disappointing even from that standpoint. . . . The entire method of constituting the House of Lords ought to be changed, and when that is done women ought to be selected from the whole population of the country...
...been with U. S. Steel since its inception in 1901, had made a batch of steel highbinders work together and actually practice his ethics in business. U. S. Steel was the sublimation of Judge Gary. He was the personification of U. S. Steel. What further did he want? He ought to cease his labors-and incidentally let the melon...
...justly admired: but it is difficult to see why it should stand on this tower or why the tower should be so extraordinarily mounted and placed with regard to the body of the church. As already suggested, the plan is probably only tentative. If it isn't it ought to be, in the interest of Harvard's esthetic future...
...unabashed hardihood of justifying the whole past and present of American industrialism by making it one with the deepest spiritual feelings of the people--especially at a time when that industrialism has just flowered in one of the most insidious assaults on democratic government that our history records--ought surely to be more than this nation can stomach. Mr. Coolidge's religion, apparently, is of a piece with that of the leading layman of the Episcopal Church in America, who, with the backing of the dominant leader in the President's own cabinet, has just spent over eight times more...