Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sports any unity of tone. Mr. Laughlin's "Pirates Pass" is a more accomplished piece of work. It is written with much deftness, its vocabulary is interesting, and its use of quotation is admirable-really finished piece of craftsmanship. I find in it, however, one or two mannerisms that ought to be cut out, and I don't like the ending. The last three lines are flat; the poem should be left to speak for itself without this unnecessary exhortation...
Month ago Senator Arthur Robinson, an Indiana Republican who can always be trusted to believe the worst about Democrats, suggested that the Senate's ocean-&-airmail investigating committee ought to look into the following: Had Vincent Astor, a director of International Mercantile Marine, and Kermit Roosevelt, an I. M. M. vice president, while aboard the Astor yacht Nourmahal off Florida with their friend Franklin D. Roosevelt, received from P. A. S. Franklin, president of I. M. M., private business messages to be conveyed to the President...
...Those Soviet workers who are accustomed to say that in the automotive field we have caught up with and surpassed the U. S. simply make themselves ridiculous. . . . We ought to send some of our best workers to the U. S. so they could see for themselves with what caution, accuracy and results in the form of production the Americans work...
...think they ought to be chained and put out there in that hole where...
Francis Bacon wrote long ago: "Judges ought to remember that their office is 'jus dicere,' and not 'jus dare...', while the Apostle Timothy once said of higher matters: "Nos scimus quia lex bona est, modo quis ea utatur legitime...