Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been "stupid" to do otherwise. But only conscience and patriotism had made him pay any tax at all. "I could have, at the time," countered he, "selected enough losses to offset any or all taxes that might have been due. But I felt I still had an income and ought to pay a substantial tax. So I sold Pittsburgh Coal largely to adjust the figure and reach an amount that would be in my mind a justifiable and fair...
...articles for the Class Album are already overdue. If we are going to get the book out in time for graduation all men who are writing for it must cooperate. In case any authors have doubts as to what or how much they ought to say about their activities, they should write to me at once at Lowell House...
...Juniors are in the unsatisfactory category as Freshmen, while fifty per cent more are on the Dean's list. Freshmen and their seniors should however, take this as a warning, rather than believing that studies become easier the longer one stands the gaff. The cause for the concern which ought to trouble their scholarly breasts is the lamentable fact that the apparent improvement can be accounted for by the number of men whose "connections with the University have been permanently severed"--in past years something like one-third of those who enter...
...shopkeepers who disappointed President Roosevelt by not kiting prices as high as he thought they would. Belgian shopkeepers, keen exchange watchers, raised prices this week almost as fast as the belga fell. This made Premier van Zeeland so angry that he lashed out: "The Belgian franc ought to buy just as much merchandise as it did a year ago. Stop thinking of the monetary question, my countrymen! We are here to defend the franc and your savings. Keep calm...
...have always believed that in industrial and business and professional life the men who have passed the milestone of three-score years and ten ought to give place to younger leaders. Even if they enjoy good health and buoyant spirits, and I have both of those happy possessions, it is time to give the next generation a chance...