Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...library ought to be the heart of a college, I rather agree with Emerson that the heart of a library ought to be a professor of books...
Representatives Fred Albert Britten of Illinois and Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer of Missouri also cried out against Mr. Fess's leadership. The Wet Republican press re acted even more sharply, and certain arch-Republican editors captioned editorials FESS OUGHT TO GO and THE BLIND SENATOR FROM OHIO. Hearst papers quoted an unnamed Republican leader as saying: "If this split continues there will be a Nationalist party...
...Fethi Bey, leader of the new party, knows how an opposition ought to act, has observed as Turkish Ambassador at Paris the antics of one of the most obstreperous parliamentary oppositions on Earth. Last week, inasmuch as Leader Fethi had been recalled to Angora specifically to cut Parisian capers, he cut them in the national assembly, flayed the government, proposed a motion of censure, voted for it with ten of his opposition deputies...
...intense tournament play . . . had given me about all I wanted in the way of hard work in the game. ... I felt that my profession required more of my time and effort, leaving golf ... a means of obtaining recreation and enjoyment. ... I have decided upon a step which I think ought to be explained to the golfers of this country. ... I certainly shall never become a professional golfer. But since I am no longer a competitor I feel free to act entirely outside the amateur rule. ... I expect to return to the practice of my profession unhampered by the necessity...
...story is nothing much?the French Foreign Legion as the background for the love affair of a private soldier and a vaudeville star who has seen better days?yet its often mechanical sequences are brought to life by Director Josef von Sternberg. Always aware that a moving picture ought to move, von Sternberg tells the story rapidly and often silently, so that Morocco has the effect of being a silent picture into which dialog has been woven, not the "incidental dialog" of the primitive, remade silent pictures, but incisive, necessary words, labelling and shaping the main currents of the plot...