Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week. Some of them wept large, mild Norwegian tears last year when Premier Mowinckel announced that Norway accepted the sentence of the World Court which took from her East Greenland, gave it to Denmark (TIME, April 17, 1933). For this act of Christian resignation, most Norwegians think, Premier Mowinckel ought to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. Instead last week Johan Ludwig Mowinckel was charged with the chore of presenting the 1934 Peace Prize to a Briton who has done his best to earn it by being President of the League's Disarmament Conference. Nobody knows better than famed...
...said we'd better bandage her up. So he ran across the street to the druggist's and bought some cotton and mercurochrome. We were struggling with the cat, trying to tie her up, when my husband phoned me and said he was coming over. I thought I ought to see Mr. Fowler alone. Leonard just got to the door when my husband and this crowd of men barged in. I certainly was surprised. I thought my husband was a gentleman...
...said: "There have been [British] conversations with France none of which, I guarantee, would have taken place had Germany not left the League and had not her internal actions regarding arms been shrouded from that day in mystery." In left-handed language Government Spokesman Baldwin then hinted that Germany ought to rejoin the League and subscribe to the Eastern Locarno Pact, a hint strongly repeated in Paris three days later by French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval. He then told Britons that "there is no ground at this moment for undue alarm or panic" since His Majesty's Government...
Then, realizing that he ought to have some warrant for such a statement, he had doctor friends ask Dr. Hartwell for an opinion. Dr. Hartwell replied as follows: "Until Dr. Koch will make the formula of his treatment available to the general medical profession and will furnish enough of the material to have it given a thorough trial in several hospitals where its results can be observed by men competent in the field of cancer, I shall continue to advise those who ask my advice not to submit to the Koch cancer cure or advance its interests financially or otherwise...
...than he pretends. A publisher's assistant since he was 18 (he was 19 years with Chatto & Windus), he retired to his Surrey cottage six years ago to give all his time to his own manuscripts. The late Enoch Arnold Bennett described Swinnerton: "He tells authors what they ought to do and ought not to do. He is marvelously and terribly particular and fussy about the format of the books issued by the firm. Questions as to fonts of type, width of margins, disposition of title-pages, tint and texture of bindings really do interest him. And misprints-especially...