Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spent so much money getting it," said a practical chauffeur, "we ought to accept...
...warning to the Chamber, the Senate by an almost unanimous vote decided that Speaker Jeanneney's speech should be posted up on notice boards in every French city, town and hamlet. Since the budget ought to have been voted by Jan. 1, appropriations and expenditures are now so out of balance that the total French deficit was estimated at $400.000,000 and was said to be increasing last week at the rate of $45.000 per hour...
...hurtful to the cause of economy and to the ideas that ought to prevail in public circles as well as in business circles, to have an idea get out that there is something confusing, or hesitancy or what not, as you can see, something went out on a ticker that I read to you . . . Now we'll take a little rest...
...latter case the mother will often not even have knowledge of the fact that she ought to have had twins. We have evidence, however, that in many more cases the twin has died during the earliest stages of his embryonic life...
...general hospital is a veritable cesspool of infection. . . . Meddlesome midwifery and puerperal infection seem to cause the greater part of the mortality, either singly or in combination. . . . Meddlesome midwifery must be abated or made safe. Something is wrong with the maternity wards of general hospitals, and a great deal ought to be done about it. My recommendation is architectural and administrative isolation of the clean maternity, until more is known about the nature of puerperal infection...