Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Almost to a man the docile little politicians of Japan's House of Representatives rose in their places last week to give Japan for 1934-35 a general's dream of what a budget ought to be. Of its 2,112,000,000 yen ($633,600,000), full 44% went to the Army and Navy, an alltime peacetime high. The Army got 450,000,000 yen ($135,000,000), the Navy 488,000,000 yen ($146,400,000). Hardly a murmur was raised against this gigantic bill for war weapons and men to use them. Indeed, Foreign Minister...
With only half the subjects studied, Dr. Hooton has published these preliminary findings in the Harvard Alumni Bulletin. "When all the material is worked out," he commented, "we shall know a great deal about the relation of physical types to education, occupation, marital state and place of birth. We ought to be able to settle the question whether gentlemen really prefer blondes...
Wrote they: ''Since our money came from the sick, we believe it ought to return to the sick in the form of advanced medical education...
Only one waitress did not scream. Her name was Minerva, and she was a nice waitress. It was a mouse in the Eliot House Dining Room, yes, a real wild mouse. No one knew what to do. One suggested that the Head Tutor be called. Another thought the animal ought to be done away with. He was cruel. In the meantime one of those men waiters who wear white coats and carry the really heavy dishes tried to grab the little mouse. But the mouse was under a table where a man from O entry was sitting. The man waiter...
...endowment fund be raised immediately, the whole plant put in the hands of a group of trustees, who would oversee the endowment and take care of the upkeep costs and taxes. The buildings and land at Red Top originally cost $150,000, an investment which Mr. Bingham rightly contends ought not to be allowed to go to seed...