Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Astonished at the outcome of his game, the judge ruled: "The accused is acquitted. The court may not judge in a sphere where science remains undecided. . . . No one has a right to complain if, going to a clairvoyant, he does not learn the truth, even as no one ought to find fault if he does not draw the winning number in a lottery...
...floodlights around his field because he could not get large crowds to go to games in the daytime. Some critics believe that while businessmen in minor-league towns cannot leave their work in the afternoon, businessmen in big cities, who can leave, go to ball games even when they ought not to, principally for the fun of being irresponsible...
...musical comedy 'Tootsie-Wootsie?' It's thrilling. You ought to hear Ada Lipski sing...
...Siberian Taiga (Amkino). Because its scene is one of the world's wildest frontiers and its direction straightforward and vital in the Russian manner, this ought to be important. It fails because, as usual, the makers have loaded on a dismal weight of propaganda. Hero is Kevebel Kima, a long haired, slant-eyed native of that swamp- land past the Siberian frontiers called Taiga. The theme is the conflict between the native's devotion to his tribal law, which stipulates that possession is a sacred right of the possessor, and the Soviet dicta that possession is the right...
...sports writer should let himself go, he ought to be able to write a good novel about his macrocosmic world. Few have; but Sports-Writer Tunis proves it can be done. Though he plays tennis and has appeared in tournaments, Author Tunis is no match for Racketeer William Tatem Tilden II on the court; but he has taken the same theme which recently lured Tilden into writing a novel (TIME, June 23) and has defeated him in straight love sets...