Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There are two sides to the question: we cowpunchers envy college men sometimes, and I 'spect they often wish they could ride like we do. Probably some of our boys would look right awkward in evenin' clothes, but if you want to see a real pretty sight you ought to watch a few of these college bred fellahs tryin' to set a cowpony. Back where we come from, the boys don't git much chance for an edication, although some of the fellahs ridin' tonight have graduated from big colleges. You eastern boys don't get the same chance...
...hospital must, of all institutions, be equipped with the most modern appliances, and capable of meeting the demands of the whole population which it serves. The new visiting committee for Stillman ought to feel deeply the responsibilities which it carries of checking carefully on the functioning of the Infirmary and insuring to the students medical service of the very highest calibre...
...play the 'Hymn to the Evening Star.' Then the Cardinal played the 'Pilgrims' Chorus' from Tannhäuser. Then it was my turn and I played 'Cavalleria Rusticana.' The Cardinal popped up and said he wanted to show me how it ought to be played, so he did. It was splendid. He has a good voice. He sang 'Marguerite' and 'Last Night the Nightingale Waked Me,' sort of humming them in a fine tenor voice. I didn't sing myself, but our piano contest was horse and horse...
...wines, which will begin functioning after the Prohibition law is repealed. . . ." Aghast, Sergeant-at-Arms Jurney hastened to explain his status: "What worries me most is that those Senators . . . may be also mixed up about who I am. . . . They gave me some fine sample bottles of wine, which I ought to return...
Those who judge professors by their eloquence or skill in "spoon-feeding" ought seduously to avoid Professor Abbott's lectures. I hope there are some others who believe that the true office of a teacher is to suggest and guide rather than to stuff or entertain. (Name Withheld by Request...