Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dawes Loan which enabled Germany to end her fantastic post-war inflation, red-faced Dr. Schacht shouted: "There is no purpose in insulting the German Government or the German people! In that case the German people might lose interest in paying at all!" What the Great Powers really ought to do, declared Dr. Schacht as a parting shot, is to return Germany's colonies before asking the Fatherland to pay another pfennig...
...would probably veto (see p. 11). ¶The President took out a three-week old letter and read it to correspondents gathered around him. It was an account of some arithmetic done by George Peek, his Special Adviser on Foreign Trade. Mr. Peek had written that the U. S. ought to keep an exact balance sheet of its transactions with other countries, to know whether its trade was profitable. Economists have made this sensible point before. From the figures and estimates available Mr. Peek offered a tentative balance. Since 1896 he calculated that foreign nations should be debited with...
...another proud moment. He and his children, Betty, n, Anne, 8 and Jimmy. 6, boarded the S. S. Conte di Savoia at Quarantine. "Who's there?" demanded a woman's voice when Jimmy pounded on a stateroom door. " "It's us, mama, and oh gee, you ought to see my report card. It's got two stars on it. Hey, let us in, will...
...what took place. Mr. Baruch:: "You should have seen those people's faces. It was really the most remarkable thing I ever saw. . . . You felt their sense of responsibility. There was a lovely thing at the end. The president of the Homesteaders' association said, "I think we ought to offer up a prayer for the blessings that the great Jehovah'- he used the word Jehovah-has given...
...both Sumner and Hadley are dead, and times and conditions have changed. The point is, if there is any value in the honorary degree as an encouragement to independent thinking and courageous public service, that it ought not to be conditioned, even in far less conspicuous cases than that of the President, upon the indorsement of specific views and conclusions. One suspects that limitation of that character -- domination by hide bound and ultraconservative elements -- has in the past prevented Yale and other institutions from awarding honorary degrees which would have done them great credit and which as the years have...