Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...just want old to say that you ought to have listed old Rutgers with her Cap to and Skull among the colleges with senior honor societies in [TIME, May 31, EDUCATION]. I'm not a Rutgers man myself, having schooled where lots of others did in the university of hard knocks. So of course I'm not intimate with Cap and Skull. But that lets me write you what those modest boys wouldn't be able to-that right here in New Brunswick is one of the dandiest old colleges in the country and in that college...
...Finally, the game has reached the point where a man can hold innumerable aces and straight flushes. The game has become so confusing that no man knows what he is playing. I believe if people are going to play the game they ought to play it according to the old rules laid down in Hoyle, the demonstrated rules...
...mania, and "Whereas, many women and girls have injured their health by reducing nostrums and wrong and injurious methods of dieting, and by bringing themselves below their normal healthy weight, while others are dangerously overweight, and "Whereas, there are at present no adequate tables which tell women what they ought to weigh, therefore be it "Resolved, that we urge the women of America not to imperil their health and that of future generations by reducing methods other than those advocated by reliable physicians...
...prince attends to his job, which is the welfare of Sweden. He thought he hadn't time to accept Mr. Ochs' invitation to see the Times presses, running nearby. This writer suggested, 'You ought to see how fast our American presses can eat up paper made in Sweden.' That interested him, and he went...
...popular children's magazines. We start at once with the great masters. Since their taste is at first unspoiled they will enjoy them and forever afterwards have high literary taste. The object of teaching literature in schools is the creation of good taste and real appreciation, and so ought it to be in music...