Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Varna nearby. Tsar Boris, whose best fun is driving a locomotive, sent a carriage and plumed horses for Engineer Phillips. Recounted Mr. Phillips: "[at the palace] he motioned me to a sofa and we sat down. . . . He told me that one problem that was bothering him was whether he ought to put automatic stokers on his engines. ... I told him that, from my experience, it would be better to go on doing the work by hand until he got larger engines. He said he guessed that was a good idea. I told him, too, that he ought...
...great needs of the world is to set international trade flowing again. . . . Trade barriers of all kinds ought to be lowered. . . . This problem of the [War] Debts is complex. Great Britain, France and Germany have at last agreed among themselves concerning Reparations. The danger now is that they may turn a united front against us. This comes not so much from the debts they owe us as from our barriers against their trade...
...King was so ill advised as to depart from his proper political and social neutrality and lead a movement for cheese paring and grinding the faces of the needy in the interests of the debt collectors. And not a soul in the Labor party has said what ought to be said about the King or about the miserable campaign of unintelligent economy which cast its dismal shadow over the closing months...
...Rosicky's resilient enjoyment of life was not likely to be much worried but Rosickv's wife made him sit in the kitchen and take life easy while his sons did the plowing. Rosicky's long habit of friendliness finally got the better of him. He thought the thistles ought to be cleared out of the alfalfa field on his son Rudolph's farm. "He put the horses to the buggy rake and set about raking up those thistles. He behaved with guilty caution. . . ." Two days later. Neighbor Rosicky was dead. He was buried in a little square of long...
...United States" and couched chiefly in the future tense. Excerpts: "Chemical, bacteriological and incendiary warfare shall be prohibited. . . . Air attacks against civilian population shall be absolutely prohibited . . ." at some future time and in some manner totally unspecified. In campaigning for re-election President Hoover and Republican orators ought to be able to make such a resolution sound much as though something had been accomplished on the President's initiative...