Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taking up the defense of the players themselves, and how they would be affected by the reduction of games, Stevens declared that the students have always felt the games to be the most pleasure of the season, and accordingly ought themselves to decide how many should be played...
...helter-skelter, bounced off a trolley car, mounted three curbs, dragged a steel traffic cable & stanchions 10 ft., crushed through a newsstand, cracked a subway kiosk, stopped at the head of the subway stairs. Extricating himself uninjured from the wreckage, Chauffeur Jacob Selditch said : "I guess maybe them brakes ought to be tightened...
...guard of the Revolution appears to have reached Harvard with the decision of the Liberal Club to join the National Student League. The imminent "purgation" of the club's membership which is resulting ought to put the Club safely at the mercy of the League's "revolutionary" program. It is only fair to say that association with a national organization, however visionary in its aims, will at least give a consistency and backbone to the Club's policy, the lack of which has measurably decreased its prestige at Harvard in recent years...
...Rentschler telephoned George Murnane, a partner in Lee, Higginson & Co., bankers for Kreuger's International Match Corp. Lee, Higginson had just floated a $50,000,000 International Match debenture issue in the U. S. "for important new investments in Poland . . . and other purposes." Banker Rentschler suggested that Banker Murnane ought to hear Kreu-ger's explanation of the failure of the Ericsson deal. It was Sunday, Feb. 21. Banker Murnane went off to church, then summoned his good friend and partner Donald Durant who was personally very close to Ivar Kreuger. Together they went to the Kreuger penthouse...
...toward the American attitude. The United States would go closer toward a real understanding with Japan by a frank examination of conscience in regard to its own actions, especially the stupid and unnecessary Exclusion Act, than by any trite and untenable pretense to superior virtue. And its daily newspapers ought to throw the weight of their influence toward that end, instead of fanning embers, with whatever good intentions...