Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House Plan has brought together men from different fields, but casual conversation, with its tendency to stay on the surface, does not produce the intellectual clash, and consequent examination of fundamentals, which ought to make the Houses vital intellectual influences as well as superior eating clubs. The plan for House forums is an ideal one; its realization would be difficult. But the prize is worth all the effort which can go toward attaining...
There are always people who are willing to give money for the laying of brick on brick. There ought to be some also willing to contribute to scholarship and loan funds, upon which depends not the comfort of men in college but the possibility for some of coming to Harvard...
...this type, the first act is perhaps the most important. The stage is incessantly cluttered up with clumsy figures in evening dress who turn out either to be guests disguised as bulls, or dicks disguised as guests, or newspaper reporters who turn out to be neither. Incidentally the reporters ought to be pleased by this little play; the police should not; and this, no doubt, is all to the good. There is one of those pleasing scenes of official sadism, inseparable from any piece dealing with the gentlemen in blue which usually sends the audience off into spasms of thrilled...
...XXIV expelling the Jesuits and barring education under Catholic auspices;* 2) President Alcala Zamora resigned in protest and 50 pious Basque and Navarra Deputies marched out of the National Assembly shouting "Long live Christ the King!"; 3) Parliamentary leaders gathered jabbering in the lobby, decided that War Minister Azana ought to be President, told Speaker Julian ("Bell Smasher") Besteiro of their decision...
...tickets for the Yale-Army game are quite well centered. The cheering ought to be good...