Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present administration is anxious to give the impression that it plays no favorites, that the little fellow and the big fellow are treated alike. But the rule of justice which hitherto has permitted an administrative official to decide whether a case ought or ought not to be criminally prosecuted now has been weakened and the grand juries will be asked to decide. If the presumption of doubt is raised because what have been believed to be lawful deductions are taken by the taxpayer, then the time may come when income tax cases will fill up the federal court dockets just...
...other hand, there are material benefits derived from probation which ought to be preserved, in one form or another. Border-line cases must be made aware of the imminence of their expulsion. Perhaps the most sensible change would be to keep a nominal probation which would cause the undergraduate to be fully conscious of his low standing, yet would in no way materially interfere with his activities. Compulsory attendance at all classes, certainly the most uselessly obnoxious feature of the present probation, could well be done away with, holding a closer check of the probated student's cuts, but abolishing...
...nation control 85% of the wealth and I suspect that if they could sell air they would get a corner on it and let the rest of us suffocate."* Among his list of a dozen "axioms" were: 1) Life is worth living. If it isn't we ought to stand the unemployed up and shoot them or let them starve as our financial interests now blandly permit. 2) Most people don't know yet there are enough goods for them to live in comfort. The schools never gave us any notion that with proper organization we could have...
...very anxious that you should know something about the History of Jesus Christ. For everybody ought to know about Him. No one ever lived, who was so good, so kind, so gentle, and so sorry for all people who did wrong, or were in any way ill or miserable, as He was. And as He is now in Heaven, where we hope to go, and all to meet each other after we are dead, and there be happy always together, you never can think what a good place Heaven is, without knowing who He was and what...
...rest of the meet seems to be definitely Harvard's. Loventritt can look for an easy victory in the breast stroke, and Fitts and Merriam ought to find little difficulty in winning the dive. George Scott and Herb Howe, entered in the sprints also have the edge over their opponents in their events...