Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Light drills have been the rule during this week of examinations, but the team has reported for practice with considerable regularity, and there ought not to be any falling off in play from last week...
...conclusion he suggested an accurate definition of the trend of the Administration's program. "Now I think that economic security of every kind is a desirable end, well worth striving for. But what the proposers of it ought to say is something like this: 'We offer you a vision which we call security, but in order to get it you must give up many of your familiar liberties...
...trivial policy upon which we are asked to act; this is the American policy which comes to us today. It is the American policy that means either that which we love in the future or that which we may fear in the future. (sic) We can, and we ought to be, Americans. The only appeal that I make is, for the love of God, without fear, let us be just Americans!" Ah, yes, Mr. Johnson, let us be just that...
Andre Morize, who teaches at Bordeaux and also at Harvard, thinks conversation is languishing. A lot of other people think so, too. Professor Morize has a theory that one reason why conversation isn't so good as it used to be, and ought to be, is that people go to teas, and stand up all through them. You can't talk well standing up, he says, which just goes to show that he's never met Smedley D. Butler, Hugh S. Johnson or One-Eyed Connolly, or never stood up in a pre-war saloon, where conversation was practically rampant...
Vigorous opposition to the University's disinclination to finance a new commuter social center has been voiced by Phillips Brooks House, the present home of the commuters. Brooks House has repeatedly maintained that the University ought to establish a center if the commuters who use it will pay their maintenance charges...