Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than necessary of this sadness." Death is going to be mysterious, I know, and if my friends are afraid to follow me to a graveyard at night I don't want them there, I'll go it alone. For anyone who does care to go, it ought to make my passing more impersonal and happy. I'm surprised people haven't thought of this idea long ago and am grateful to TIME for having brought it to my thoughts...
...Duke of Connaught. Grand Master of English Masons, to the New York Grand Lodge. At a dinner following the meeting, he exclaimed: "You have a saying here: 'Hats off to the past and coats off to the future.' And to that I say: 'So ought...
...Harvard ought surely to follow Yale and Princeton in cancelling the meaningless distinction between its A.B. and S.B. degrees by making the arts degree dependent on the field of concentration rather than on knowledge of the ancient languages. Such a change need not imply a denial by the University of the value of studying the classics. It would blot out the stigma of official favoritism which, by arousing an instinctive antagonism, has probably hindered rather than promoted a true appreciation of ancient literature and culture...
...SQUARE CIRCLE-Denis Mackail- Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). Charles Dickens would have liked this book. It ought to be good enough for most people. Author Mackail has made himself the chronicler of London's "Tiverton Square" -one of those quiet upper-middle-class residential oases in the roaring metropolitan desert. Like Manhattan's Gramercy Park, the Square has a sacred enclosure to which only residents have a key, and within the pale stands the statue of some respectable and forgotten person. Children play there while their nurses gossip; from most of the Square's houses sober citizens...
...Then that's what you ought to do," says Uncle Mark. "As long as you have the good time...