Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...substance of the whole matter is that the states of the American union owe a very large amount of money, which they are perfectly able to pay and which they ought to pay, but which they will not pay and which they cannot by any of the usual processes employed against delinquent debtors be made...
There is a good deal of ignorance, even on the part of officials who ought to know better, as to the legal status of Indians. All semi-Americanized, non-reservation Indians became citizens in 1891, under the Dawes Act (24 U. S. Stats, at L. 390); all tribal, reservation Indians, not theretofore citizens, became such in 1924 (43 U. S. Stats, at L. 253). The present discomfort of the Indian lies, not in his lack of citizenship, but in the fact that although a citizen he is not generally accorded the social services to which a citizen is entitled...
...When we discuss the debts owed us by foreign governments we ought to keep in mind, and they ought to keep in mind, that we are not talking about something that is the accumulated property of the American Treasury; that we are discussing a debt which ultimately they owe to the people from whom the U. S. Government borrowed; that, in a sense, we Senators are the indorsees for them, and that if they fail in their promise the burden will fall on the American people...
...Young's "Brown of Harvard" which was performed last evening before a large body of spectators in the Princess Theatre, is chiefly interesting, perhaps, as an illustration of the female notion of what made university life is or ought...
...innovation in Harvard fencing is planned next season with the formation of a sabre team. In the New England division of the intercollegiates Yale and Dartmouth were the only colleges that had sabre teams, and it is felt that the University ought to be able to furnish them opposition in this branch of fencing as well as in the others...