Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After all the creditor nations ought to have realized, they must realize anyhow, that commercial debts can only be paid in goods and services, and unless they are prepared to take goods and services, they cannot expect to have their debts paid...
...quite right. It is perfectly staggering the idiotic things even a wise man will do." Though Bennett wrote for money and made a good income (as high as $75,000) he was not extravagant; but he had foibles. "In the morning, early, I went into Selfridge's, which ought not to have been open, and bought a pencil that writes in four colours and a combination magnifying-glass, inch rule, and letter opener. All very attractive, indeed irresistible...
...lead, Bonthron took the outside lane by the Stadium wall and ran past the field to win by four yards. ¶ The night before the meet, High Jumper George Spitz dropped into a Boston cafeteria, asked for a piece of pie. Said the counterman: "Say, do you think you ought to eat pie, with you jumping tomorrow?" Jumper Spitz ate no pie, won the high jump next day with a new intercollegiate record of 6 ft. 6| in. ¶ For the last three years. Fordham's Joe McCluskey has won every race he has entered against undergraduate opponents. Second...
...high places. Apropos the 1929 letter of Morgan Partner William Ewing by which William H. Woodin, now Secretary of the Treasury, was let in on the ground floor of Alleghany Corp. stock because ''We were thinking of you," Colyumist Broun chortled: "I think that Mr. Woodin ought to go back to his job of composing ballads. ... If the waltz king of the American Car & Foundry Co. wants something in a nice hot fox trot, how about 'My Little Morganatic Miss...
...question of room rents. In spite of the concessions which the University has made in the teeth of its own restricted budget, room rents on the whole are still demonstrably too high. The possibility of a further revision, at least as great as that which was made last year, ought to be investigated carefully. One possible way of making such a revision would be to abandon the present arrangement by which tutors in the Houses are not charged for the rooms they occupy. Whether or not this would work too great a hardship financially on the tutorial staff...