Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...review of this book was excellent, but I think that Mr. Lavine's picture ought to grace your pages so that those of us out here in the wilderness might see just how he looks...
Other nations were willing also to outlaw tear gas, but Mr. Gibson successfully argued that the object was to ban inhumane gasses and that those, such as tear gas, which were more humane than machine guns, ought not to be prohibited...
Significance. Many a banker argued late and loudly over the question of whether the big organizations ought to have prevented the failure of Bank of United States, cost what it might. One side said it would have been worth $50,000,000 to prevent fear from spreading through the ranks of the financially ignorant. The other side said that in helping the weak the strong impair their own strength, and hence the fundamental strength of the country. Agreed: It depends upon the particular case...
...picked Mr. Lindsey up by seat and legs, half carried him out of the cathedral. Worshippers, enraged by his unnecessary interruption of their services, cried denunciations. Several ran after the ejected little judge. One man hit him on the head. Two, three men kicked him. A woman screamed: "You ought to be lynched." Police took him to a police station, booked him for disorderly conduct, but did not jail him. The commotion was an eruption of long-burning fires within Bishop Manning's diocese. Many of his clergy dislike him as a bishop. To the run of New York...
...want you to correct one thing," said Mme Dzhugashvili, manifesting some excitement. "They talk a lot about Soso's being born in Lilo, but that's entirely wrong! . . . Soso was born in Gori. . . . I'm his mother and I ought to know! . . . Soso will be 51 eight days after Christmas old style. I don't know what date it would be by the new way of reckoning.* I never could learn...