Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attrition; they did not care to antagonize the boys, so they appealed to the "old time Yale spirit" that lies latent in every student's bosom. They want to build up a "binding tradition" a sort of "every week is stay at home week at Yale" spirit. This ought to do it, if anything will. The "week end tradition" if carried on with the diligence of former fathers by the present sons will do much to impress upon the boys that the country and the gods can be served in later years, but that Yale now is in dire need...
...Royal Commission as a whole acknowledged that a Prime Minister cannot possibly be expected to motor some five miles out to Hampstead every time he must change his clothes, asked Mr. MacDonald to state frankly what he thought his salary ought to be. Cogitating, he replied, "At least seven thousand pounds [$34,020]. . . . On five thousand [$24,300] any Prime Minister without private income and dependent on his salary would be living on charity in two years after he left the office, unless he were an extremely careful person or unless he were supported by friends...
...people's feelings than were the votes of the magazine reading public who voted in the Literary Digest ballot. And so if is suggested that a third type of poll be taken, by secret ballot, in little booths, on some "first Tuesday" in November. This, at least, ought to be conclusive...
...impression that Nominee Gore had turned Wet that on Sept. 21 the Anti-Saloon League felt it necessary to publish a Dryish letter from him. In this letter he used the following weasel-words: "Should time and experience demonstrate the necessity for a change in the law, such change ought to be made by the friends of temperance rather than its enemies...
...cronies. Rembrandt's popularity as a portrait-painter had gone; his artistic experiments, his unconventionality, his debts had roused the commercial conscience of the burghers against him. But Van Loon recognized his genius, liked his character, helped him when he could, gave him good advice when he thought he ought to: notably when he noticed the unmarried pregnancy of Rembrandt's housekeeper, Hendrickje Stoffels. In spite of all, Rembrandt died in bankruptcy, Van Loon was "killed" a few years later at the Battle of Kijkduin. Rembrandt's fame had evaporated, apparently forever...