Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those "willing to go along to try to balance the Budget" to rise. To their feet came all but a dozen sulky members. When he called for "those who do not want to balance the Budget," not a man got up. "I think," declared Speaker Garner triumphantly, "that ought to restore to the American people confidence in our country. ... I think more of my country than I do of any theory of taxation and the country is in a condition where the worst taxes you could levy would be better than no taxes...
...Maundy, from the Middle English Maunde, the Latin Mandatum, means a command, refers to the "new commandment," John, 13:14-15'. If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done...
...Lady was nude. "We are going to have a meeting next Wednesday," said Primitive Methodist Ellis, "to take up complaints about obscene books, nude pictures and also this Diana statue. We are going after the whole situation and we mean business. . . . Of course to do the right thing we ought to go into the Academy and the Museum and clean them out, too. They are just as bad as the burlesque theatres for nude pictures, but if we can't do that we can certainly do something to stop their putting such things around in the open...
...graduate school. The undergraduate House Plan has tended to monopolize the interest of the University at the expense of the Graduate School. There remain in the House Plan many problems still to be solved, but the need for practically undivided attention is past. The efforts of the University ought to be focused on the essential source of its greatness, the excellence of its best scholars...
When a Cornell man says wearily, "Will the Marines never come?" he means, "Something ought to be done...