Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Added Senator Borah: "I am of the opinion as I always have been, that we ought not to be in there...
...tenderest freshmanhood it develops, nor ought we to affect surprise. Almost everything about the usual university works toward making him feel small; instead of seeing an establishment got up for him and ingratiatingly placed at his disposal, it appears rather to delight in minimizing his importance--with the natural result. Dwindling in his own eyes, he reasserts himself, though that is at first a bit difficult. He cannot subtract one cubit from the stature of those collegiate halls whose very size and costliness and grandeur overawe and humiliate him. He cannot lighten by so much as an ounce the pressure...
...student at Rollins soon discovers that the definitely required study periods, with their inescapable exactments, leave him at liberty to enjoy to the full what remains of his waking hours. In his recreation, he is never haunted by the thought, "Hang it! I'm fooling away time when I ought to be studying...
Dewey, and by 1940 it ought to be in control of the nation...
...formula of U. S. talking pictures - a formula which the French, like other European producers, have recently become able to imitate successfully. A theme song - now obsolete in Hollywood - is heartily employed, but "Sous les Toits de Paris" is a pretty song, gay and nostalgic ; it ought to be popular if native orchestras bother to work out a dance arrangement for it. The plot concerns a street-singer and a street-hawker who fall in love with the prettiest girl in their neighborhood. One of them wins her in spite of complications caused by a bully-boy who gets possession...