Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...photographed, grinning, beside a weather map which recorded that in Denver the temperature was six degrees above freezing (see cut). Last week with Denver temperatures down below freezing. Mr. Adams could not grin, but he had returned to the Capital firm in his belief that $725,000,000 ought to be enough to keep reliefers from being turned out into the snow between now and spring...
Last week Sir Auckland Geddes, Wartime Minister of National Service, onetime Ambassador to the U. S., did not tranquilize the atmosphere when he told British housewives that they ought to put some things away for a bomby day. Not only should they store food; they should also store water in bottles and jugs. In order not to upset the commodity markets, he said, they should buy very slowly and calmly. English housewives are literal-minded. Next day merchants reported sales of canned goods and water jugs falling...
...take me too seriously," the Deputy said. "I am not asking you to make war on Britain, but we ought to clear up a question that threatens to compromise French rights. We have occupation of factories, occupation of the Rhineland, occupation of Ethiopia and now part of French Somaliland and, finally, of the Minquiers Islands. Nobody has ever done anything about any of them...
...Hall or DeGhett. Last week as the ship lay in Hoboken, Scruggs caught De Ghett's ear. Pitcairn had told DeGhetl about the gifts. Here they were at last Scruggs advised him to hurry over and get "the stuff." "We're sailing tomorrow," he said, "and you ought to get it tonight. I'll leave it with the fellow at the head of the pier. . . . Try to get here about...
...Elliott said by radio that: 1) a Texan ought to be elected President soon, and 2) Vice President John Nance Garner is a fine Texan...