Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recognizable nations of the world.† Twenty clocks warned them to make haste. Without even waiting for King George to arrive, the coal-black delegate of Haiti, gigantic, barrel-chested Constantin Mayard, broached his plan for world prosperity to whoever would listen. ''Everybody ought to drink more rum," advised Delegate Mayard, "and they ought to eat more bananas." Word that the King-Emperor was rising in the Conference lift caused 800 delegates, experts and correspondents to scramble to their feet. Stiff and silent to honor His Majesty, benign sovereign of one-quarter of all mankind, stood white chief...
...ales is treated as if it were an ordinary commercial and profit-making source of supply. But the mere fact that beer is sold is not decisive; the relation of a university to its students is categorically different from that of a tradesman to his customers, and the difference ought to be recognized in the law. As for the stipulation that beer cannot be sold to those under twenty-one years of age, it has proved not only harassing to the legal advisers of the University, but unenforceable throughout the state. There should, no doubt, be no sale to children...
...heavy price for the unwillingness of the older members of the Faculty to accept tutees. The lack of interest and experience manifested by so many of the present tutors is generating a corresponding slackness in the average student, and the first efforts of the new administration ought to be aimed at correcting...
...person or persons appointed would devote all or the major part of his time to tutorial work. Since most promotions at the present time are notoriously made as a reward for distinction in research and original scholarship, such an appointment would strongly emphasize the high value which the University ought to attach to the work and personality of the tutor. It would be a concrete encouragement to those members of the tutorial staff whose genuine interest in their work is discouraged by the feeling that it cannot be indulged without sacrificing their chances of promotion. And on the part...
...story, "Be Mine Tonight" will be successful because of Magda Snyder's slyness; but as an operetta it will be a sure hit because of Jan Kiepura's tenor voice, which is heard often in the more familiar operas. His next picture "Blossom Time" soon to be released, ought to be worth seeing -- and hearing...