Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this article, under a good photograph of Mr. Hughes, there is the following remark in fat print: "HUGHES AND SUPREME JUDGESHIP" Mr. Taft ought never to have named him. The senate ought never to have confirmed him. He was no more meant for the position than was Boss Murphy for the rectorship of Trinity Church...
...impossible to say anything out of the ordinary about this book. That is a confession which ought to damn it from the start. In reviewing so many of these profound studies of adolescence it has become irksome to repeat the only catch words which can be repeated--realism, frankness, and so on. It has finally dawned upon me that the story of a man's emotional strivings and strugglings are bound to be all these things. They make good reading but do not last, for any other true story, confession, or what you will, has the same appeal...
...Lords: CL Received with skepticism Air Secretary Baron Thomson's assertion that Britain ought to build another giant dirigible. "It might be asked," said Lord Thomson plaintively, "why the Graf Zeppelin can go around the world while our two airships spend their time mainly in sheds. . . . There are few Dr. Eckeners in the world and we have not had time to produce our Dr. Eckeners...
Arthur Brisbane, No. 1 Hearstman, last week met Henry Ford in Ginsburg & Levy's antique shop on Madison Ave., Manhattan. Mr. Brisbane told Mr. Ford he ought to advertise his cars in the American Weekly (Hearst Sunday Supplement). Said Mr. Ford, "I guess you're right" and pulling a knife from his right trouser pocket, slipped it into his fob pocket. "That's how I make myself remember things," he said...
...educators of today, their attitude towards college education being very strange and unusual. A well-known weekly publication comments on the fact that when three or more educators get together they regularly denounce the present-day college and ridicule, a large proportion of the college students, saying that they ought to be at work somewhere...