Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...money is rented, WHO ought to pay the rent; the man who has the money when the rent falls due, or someone who hasn...
...toward seeing that a more or less cloistered faculty is alive to the vital economic problems of the day? Do they, in their spare moments between testifying before Senate investigating committees and issuing denunciations of the Securities Law, give a thought to the part which Harvard's Economics department ought to play in training the leaders of a new order of society? There is, perhaps, no reason to suppose that the opinions of all these men have been moulded solely by their position in life, but if ever there were assembled a committee composed of lameducks in the sense that...
...that is the condition these economic genii want to restore. . . . These men have really nothing to support them but the width of their mouths and the volumetric capacity of their lung power. . . . The fact is that they do not know what they want and men in that condition ought not to speak...
Later: "Maybe I ought not to talk this way about another Government official...
...individual within a period of six years draws salaries and bonuses of $1,500,000, don't you think the Government ought to limit that...