Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when the changes made for military purposes in all instruction had left matters in a somewhat fluid state. A committee of the Faculty was appointed to consider what, if any, extension of the principle could profitably be made in other fields. There was a feeling that such a system ought not to be maintained in one class of subjects alone; that it should either be abolished or extended. After a study of the question in its various phases the committee reported, and in April, 1919, the Faculty voted, that general examinations should "be established for all students concentrating in Divisions...
...proud boast of the government-controlled British Broadcasting Corp. that it gives the public, not what it wants, but what it ought to hear (TIME, June i, 1931). The Governors carried this policy a step further last month by presenting a radio feature which they felt not the general public but their fellow politicians ought to hear: a speech by Caricaturist David Low of the London Evening Standard, with the Daily Express's Leslie ("Jack") Strube (pronounced Strooby), the ablest of present day British newspaper cartoonists. Excerpts...
Your question No. 9 raises an important issue. Tutorial instruction ought to be directed toward preparation for the general examinations--provided these examinations are, as they ought to be, and can be, a fair test of a man's mastery of his subject. In my department they are improving from year to year, and I look for continued improvement in the future. It is nonsense to ask a student to read for a tutor only with the indeterminate end in view of gaining a liberal education--nonsense to ask a student to read for a tutor only with the indeterminate...
...BRIGHT LAND-Janet Ayer Fair-bank-H ought on Mifflin ($2.50). Call me pet names, dearest! Call...
...quite enough to let him seduce her. It was on a weekend at her aristocratically shabby farm that Julian met complication No. 2. Ann was Marty's cousin, but prettier and much bolder. She liked Julian right away, never bothered her unscrupulous head about whether she ought to invite him into her bedroom. Marty found out about their carryings-on and went wild, but Julian hardly cared. About the time he was fired from college Ann wrote him she was going to have a baby (an exaggeration). Julian immediately married her. Ann's parents, not sharing her enthusiasm...