Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...English forefathers learn the lesson that in the purse strings lies power, and the Student Council may well profit by it. Decrees and recommendations are the symbols of authority, but in the purse itself is its reality. Backed by the student exchequer the authority of the Student Council ought more nearly to attain the weight which it deserves...
...Houdini was equal to the occasion: "You're not a medium, and anyhow you ought to know what's in the telegram, you sent...
...head coach to see that it is changed. Too many men are going down to Soldiers Field to while away the spring afternoons and not to put all they have got into building up a better Harvard ball team. Also, there are about half the men down there that ought to be supporting the sport in a college of this size. Too many potential ball players are fooling around with crew and minor sports at which they can never succeed and others are spending the spring in doing nothing at all. Baseball players can be developed...
...perforce take it for granted that nobody will think while he is reading. And without thought, by writer and reader alike, allegorical writing is impossible. Allegory is the only class of writing in which the imitation of outworn literary styles can justify imposing itself upon the readers' attention. There ought to be, in the Advocate articles on Merlin and on the Dragon, a neatly concealed but none the less obvious reference to some Harvard problem or situation in which everyone hereabouts is interested. Mr. Demos does this in a more direct way, in his comparison between science, art, and philosophy...
...team ended its season well; the hockey and track squads have won even greater honor. The human desire for victory dictates some mention of this recent cluster of them Perhaps they do not stand for a success any the more real than seasons of uncrowned endeavor. But if defeat ought not to be unduly depressing, nor victory unduly intoxicating, it nevertheless remains that the latter is vastly the more preferable. The University is very naturally warmed by the success of its representatives and very properly unites in congratulating Captain Cumings, Captain Tibbetts, Captain Smith, and the teams which they have...