Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...statement issued yesterday reads: "In regard to enrollment in the Houses, it has been expressed as a general principle that the less expensive rooms ought not to be given to graduate students to the exclusion of undergraduates. The aim is to protect the interests of the undergraduate members for whom the Houses are primarily intended. It is naturally desirable and gratifying that members of the Houses should want to continue in residence as graduate students. But limits are necessary in order that the interests of the undergraduates may not be prejudiced, either as to the price or number of rooms...
Wags were quick to point out that the cinema owner ought to have been beheaded. For his crime the Act invoked last week provides Death by the axe. It was passed in the reign of Queen Elizabeth especially to cause the beheading of such troublesome Scottish flag-flyers as Mary Queen of Scots. No fool, the young Duke of Norfolk knew better last week than to order, "Off with his head...
Quitting Geneva amid a few Japanese shouts of Banzai! ("May You Live 10,000 Years!") Japanese Chief Delegate Matsuoka sped by train to Paris, arrived there unable to make up his mind last week whether he ought to cross the Atlantic and "explain everything" to President Roosevelt or sail from Marseilles for Japan via the Suez Canal...
...common among those who favor this "balance-the-budget" theory to point out that just as businesses and families pare down expenditures to the bone and beyond, so ought governments to adopt a similar course. And the heads of federal, state, and city departments have generally bowed to this show of logic. But this is an outworn and economically unsound argument. The time for the government to retrench and take stock is not in a depression, but in times of prosperity. In a period when there is considerably little money passing about, when individuals and private businesses are postponing their...
...arrived from Bucharest, registered at a Nice hotel. Speedily interviewed, the visitor impatiently pointed out that her hair was blonde, not red, that she was not named Magda as is his Majesty's companion. "If you've ever seen the other Mme Lupescu," she added tartly, "you ought to know I am telling the truth. Why, she's ten years older than...