Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vanquish them is "linked with Italy, with the Church and with the Fascist declaration that Malta is a part of Italy unredeemed." Nationalists retorted that if Baron Strickland were really a "faithful son of Holy Church" as he claimed in his letter to be, then the British Premier ought to be working zealously for return of Malta to the temporal as well as spiritual fold of Rome...
...have ceased to be newspaper copy. And I am out of public life. ... So I ought to be entitled to privacy...
...sweeping the educated of the country, a revolt against Elks and parades, and all that they stand for. The intelligenzia have pointed out the sordid, unworthy facts that parades block traffic, that parading spoils the tempers of the Elks, who get all warm and pothered, and that the Freshmen ought to be studying anyway. But in these hard times there should be a return to the principles for which the Elks parade...
...good A.B. degree and more besides. In addition, he should have a thorough and well-ordered knowledge of educational conditions, problems, and techniques. This means so much more than anything you imply by your use of the word "method", that it is fatuous to say that a trained teacher ought to have both knowledge of his subject and knowledge of method. A trained teacher ought to be a person of learning and also a person who knows education. The Dean of Barnard College and your own editorial writer contributed to an important tendency in American education when they insisted that...
Time & again Peru's Congress has hinted to the President that, since he was not killed, he ought to commute the death sentence. But President Sanchez Cerro is as mentally relentless as he is physically robust and tough. Congress, knowing this, has tried to wheedle him by the flattery of promoting him in military rank. President Sanchez Cerro was unmoved. Lounging at home in a $150 silk bathrobe he let Jose Melgar sit in jail...