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Word: ought (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trivial details contributes little to one's education, while those broader essay subjects which evoke individual thought require more time. If some mid-semester's grade is necessary, then to submit term papers would be far more profitable than hour exams. Irksome and worthless, those relics of juvenile schooling ought long ago to have been relegated to the limbo of the birch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WITCHING HOUR | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

...could be proud to play on the team. And, strangest of all, I never enjoyed higher marks in my school career than I did when playing on the team. The overemphasis which the CRIMSON deplores and hopes to avoid, is simply giving to something all that we have. We ought to give it. J. Patterson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Agi Quod Agis" | 12/1/1934 | See Source »

Last week was no time for a statesman in his position to make a speech in which the biggest word was IF, a speech calmly toying with the question of what Holland ought to do IF the dollar, pound, yen and other flexible moneys should one fine day be stabilized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Pressure on Gold | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

...Harvard now on the dawn of a new day and there is indeed much Comfort in that. They have no heavy Burton to bear today, although the Wilde Blackwood is full. Brookings and Mirey ground. Even so Harvard she win as always. This time 19 to ought, same like Princeton, only different. Yale she lose to Tiger 14-6. Holy Cross 27 Brown 0 Dartmouth 10 Cornell 6 Colgate 19 Syracuse...

Author: By (cable TO The crimson), | Title: HU FLUNG HUEY, PEOPLE'S PAL, GIVES HARVARD A WIN | 11/17/1934 | See Source »

...occasion differed from others only in one important particular: The election in which he voted was the nearest thing possible to a national referendum on Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Said he as he stepped out of the downpour: "It's good weather for ducks. The Democrats ought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HOUSE: Vote of Thanks | 11/12/1934 | See Source »

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