Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rate the gracious advice of the Prince to his former countrymen ought not to be lost upon the world. If royalty have been degraded to figureheads, they may yet serve as spectacular and useful ornaments. If he continues to pay the melting pot the compliment of understanding, the Prince will likely capture a public usually crudely sportive where crowned heads are concerned...
...That agriculture needs the aid which the Government alone can give is agreed upon everywhere and by every person. . . . There may be?indeed, there is?wide difference of opinion with respect to the measures that ought to be employed...
...makes them less effective for their purpose. Cumbrous, expensive, dilatory judicial administration and a substantive law, inadequate to the new conditions of manufacturing and marketing and industrial organization strain the machinery of legislation and of administration, since they cause us to turn from the judicial department in matters that ought to be dealt with judicially, and attempt vainly to do the work of courts by legislation or by administration...
...Caraway: "The Senator is a very able lawyer. Can my friend Pepper now sue the people who got his money and did not deliver, and recover? He ought to have some kind of forum where he can get his money's worth...
...went down to defeat. . . . The press today states, and the statement is not categorically denied, that there was on yesterday and the few preceding days expended in the Pennsylvania primary from $2,000,000 to $5,000,000. If the charge be true, every man concerned in it ought to be speedily tried and sent to the penitentiary...