Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...superintendents picked up the issue, tossed it back & forth. Said Washington's Superintendent Frank Washington Ballou, to whose schools go the children of Congressmen of all political and social hues: "Before we indoctrinate students in the new social order we ought to find out what that social order shall...
Books from Professor Copeland's library will go on sale at the Harvard Cooperative Society today. The bare announcement ought to be enough. I don't know why Professor Copeland's books--some of them--are to be sold. He didn't tell me, and I didn't ask. I suspect he hasn't room for them all. I don't know how he made his choice, either, or the title of any single one of them. It does not matter. (Many, certainly, are duplicates...
...these days of new deals, new presidents and so on, I think it is no more than fair to explain a few facts which I think ought to be cleared up. Let's go back to your paper of Nov. 28, 1934. In glowing headlines Henry L. Shattuck '01, Treasurer of Harvard, gives his annual report of expenditures and savings...
...Borah's inquiry was only the opening gun of a Republican bombardment. The Republicans had held a caucus and for once found themselves in some unanimity. The thing they were most unanimous about was that the $4.000,000,000 ought to be spent not later than June 30, 1936, instead of 1937 as specified in the bill. On that point their unanimity could do them no possible good, because the Democratic majority, disunited as they might be on other points, were united against the Republicans on that one: for on that point depended the question of whether there should...
...showed the best form of his college career in the meet with Chicago last Monday when he won by a fall over Frank Pesek in 5 minutes, 48 seconds. This year he is undefeated in the 175-pound class, having won by two falls and two decisions, and again ought to show well in the Intercollegiates in March...