Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government must have a sense of proportion. . . . There are many things in this country of which the vast majority of voters are unappreciative. ... Is the Government not to have the right to have the courage to say 'This is a thing that England ought to possess' when it is offered for sale? . . . The British Museum is a public body under Parliamentary control. To say that the Government ought not to hand over this money to the British Museum is ridiculous...
Somebody told him he ought to stop spitting, that his lungs were bad. So he went to Nashville...
...TIME never said another thing from now on, the remarks in the July 2 issue regarding the average college-bred woman being a "flop" as a wife, ought to cause the renewal of a lot of subscriptions. Keep it up. Maybe some of us chaps who have been stung will get a break. Anyhow, we are fed up on a college-bred wife whose remaining asset of her college days consists of a taste for punk cigarets plus a tarnished complexion and an insistence to short-circuit any and all opinions contrary to her own by espousing a look...
Author Minehan thinks something ought to be done about these child hoboes, advocates a Child Conservation Corps "which will have as its purpose the saving not of our forests a hundred years from today, but of our boys and girls growing into the men and women of tomorrow...
...Nellie Prietzel and five other parishioners said she had. Six others said she had not. Mrs. Charles Edwards said she had heard Rector Livingston refer to one of his ladies as a "rattlesnake." Rector Livingston said he had not. He said Miss Julia Smith had told someone that he ought to be "behind the bars." Miss Julia Smith said she had not. Someone said Miss Smith had once broken up a Ladies Aid Meeting by tossing a 5-gal. gasoline can across the room. "I never heard of such a thing," snapped Miss Smith...