Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hold on, now, hold on." said Constable Jex. "There are a few things you and I ought to have a little talk about...
...Thomas column, headed "Timely Topics," introduced the advertisement with the words: "All young men ought to be interested in knowing how much more scientific are the means by which they may die in the next war." Columnist Thomas had received the text from one Alan Clark, active member of the Socialist Party in Berkeley, Calif. It came typewritten on a plain piece of paper headed: "Facsimile of an advertisement appearing in the American Machinist...
...Hearst (laughing) : I don't think they ought to starve. It's not happened on our papers. . . . The Guild would tend to deprive the reporter of the character which makes a newspaper man a romantic figure...
...does not deteriorate in practically every way." "Children," said General Patterson, "up to a certain age can do fairly well in the tropics, provided you can get a good supply of milk for them, which is always hard to do. But after they reach 8 or 10 they ought not to be in the tropics." Of civilians who work in the tropics the Surgeon General continued: "They do not look vigorous to me. Take Hawaii particularly, which is a delightful place most of the year to live. The people there are pretty well-to-do, the white people...
...between an artist and the conventionality of a Southern town. So described, the theme sounds conventional, but this story is not conventional at all. Mr. Ferris puts his reader rapidly into the middle of the action, almost uncomfortably so, for his artist is such a strange individual that we ought to be more carefully prepared for him than we are. There is something hectic about the atmosphere we find ourselves in, and we get uneasy. But this is an impressive story; even if it is a little feverish, it has power and authoriticity, and Mr. Ferris should, with more practice...