Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the primary, newshawks flocked to see Mr. Smith in his high Manhattan office, asked him what the vote meant. He explained: "It ought to put a chock under the bandwagon and stop people from jumping on it, on the theory there's nowhere else to go. Give what happened time to sink in and we'll see." While Massachusetts was voting last week, so was Pennsylvania-but with this difference: no Democratic nominee for President has carried Pennsylvania since the Civil War. Out of some 200,000 Democratic votes cast in a preference primary that bound...
...official church for state weddings or funerals or solemn thanksgiving or prayer in time of stress. The religion of the U. S. President was, and is, of no concern to the State: he could worship, get married, be buried with his own kind. But for the nation itself there ought to be a church, thought George Washington and many men after him, where heroes should be entombed and citizens make pilgrimage. It assuredly must be a great cathedral...
...Manning might reflect that his own Cathedral of St. John the Divine is bigger but darker. He might also recall a remark Bishop Freeman made in Manhattan some years ago, when both Cathedrals were campaigning for money: "If Washington is not more powerful than New York, then the Capitol ought to be transferred to New York...
...change in language requirements would not be difficult; in the past they have occasionally been revised. Acceptance of an "elementary" knowledge of modern languages ought to be discontinued. Students should either be required to have a reading knowledge of the languages presented or be permitted to count more advanced knowledge of other languages...
...ought to. I've been wearing them for six months. I'm used to everything except the physical strain. Standing for five hours is gruelling. The tension is so great, that the work is just as hard as running a marathon. In New York after two months I got the 'jitters.' I could scarcely control my hands. Never again--that is, not for a long time will I take a play as long as this...