Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dealers publicly moaned that the prices were only one-third of what they ought to be, but privately were thoroughly satisfied with this open-market test of their fair-weather commodity...
Twelve thousand Paris taxicab drivers were striking against a two-franc (12½?) additional tax on gasoline. They claimed that the companies from whom they rent their cabs ought to pay the tax. Once on strike, they added social insurance and better working conditions to their demands. To 100 non-strikers they showed scant mercy when they laid hands on them...
...that Professor Holcombe should look to Aristotle as his master; they have much in common. Both are exceedingly astute, realistic students of politics. Both lack any real philosophic depth in their points of view, and from long association with what is they tend to identify what is with what ought to be. Both have studied the past so thoroughly and so well that they have come to love it and unconsciously to project it into the future. Remember that Aristotle wrote his politics as a guide to Greek City-Statesmen while tutoring Alexander who was to murder the <> he loved...
...student has to content himself with jotting down enough facts and quotations to convince the corrector that he has done his work. There is little opportunity for the working out of a thoughtful summary of the reading along the lines of one's own intellect, which the reading period ought to encourage...
...figurehead of one of his own mills. For a while Walter thought he was being very successful. His quick rise brought him up the necessary social notches that separated him from the girl of his dreams. Safely married to her, with his own house and car, he thought he ought to be happy. But Walter was no fool. He had not worked for Tasker long before he knew his boss was a crook. But by that time he was an accessory to many a damning irregularity. As he watched Tasker pull himself out of one ticklish position after another, Walter...