Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appears to me," concluded Lord Hewart, "that the bulk of the provisions of the Licensing Acts are quite inapplicable to the House of Commons, of which most of us have some knowledge. I am clearly of the opinion that this rule nisi ought to be discharged...
...really ask for costs in this case?'' incredulously cried the Lord Chief Justice. "We have had, and I expect you too have had, a rare and refreshing diversion from the ordinary routine of this court. There ought to be no costs...
...been not been not even the doorway to a career. The pay has been inadequate, the work exacting and often exhausting, and the tutor knew that, no matter how well he might perform his task, his promotion to an assistant professorship would depend upon qualifications among which tutoring ability ought to be one of the most important, but that it would rarely be given due weight. If he was a good tutor, the fact would not be held against him, but neither would it count heavily in his favor. Consequently the young man who went into tutoring tended to look...
...down with the Legion of Decency and all other forms of pernicious busybodying. Such things serve only to emphasize as indecent what would otherwise pass unnoticed. In this free country a man ought to have a right to see a filthy show if he wants to. Preventing him from seeing it will not prevent him from being the kind of person that wants to. . . . Censorship, for all its misguided good intentions, is just another racket the people have...
...armed to the teeth have been turning back anyone trying to get into Russia from Rumania. To emphasize the wrath of the two nations at each other, the last connection between them, a railway bridge, was dynamited. In Soviet geographies Red moppets learn that the Rumanian province of Bessarabia ought to be, must be Russian. Punished is that Soviet child who does not draw Bessarabia as part of Russia, color it the same as the rest of the Soviet Union...