Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rhody Reds lost to Brown 5 to 1 about a month ago and since then have dropped one to the Connecticut Aggies. Brown also beat the Crimson, in fact two times, so the game this afternoon ought to be one between fairly evenly matched teams...
Perhaps the only downright disparaging remark England's Queen-Empress Mary is known to have uttered was her icy observation, four years ago, that the Queen of a certain Balkan state, who was then touring the U. S., ought to go to Hollywood and remain there. Queen Marie is Queen Mary's husband's second cousin...
...Senate longer (27 years) than any other member. Senator Overman, rotund, white-haired, oldfashioned, declaimed as follows: ''Judge Parker loves the plain people. . . . Irreproachable character . . . honest man. . . . He expressed the sentiment [political exclusion of Negroes] that every man in the State really entertains. . . . A man ought not to be held responsible for what he says in a political speech...
...rather heartening. . . . The six I had in mind-Mr. Stimson [Secretary of State] who had just come from the Philippines where the country is Wet, Mr. Davis [Secretary of Labor] who in a published book said that the matter of liquor for men who worked in high temperatures ought to be changed. Mr. Lament [Secretary of Commerce] who had been one of the directors of our association, Mr. Mellon [Secretary of the Treasury] who is certainly counted as being against the law, Mr. Brown [Postmaster General] who is wet, and Mr. Adams [Secretary of the Navy] who I think...
...Supreme Court is to retain its function as the moulder of the Constitution in eventual accordance with the popular mandate, it is essential to appoint to it men of high quality and broad outlook. For example, the men who may one day sit in judgment on the Volstead Act ought to have in view impending disruption and obvious corruption as well as intricacies in wording of the law itself. And Judge Parker, from all that can be discovered, seems neither broadminded nor first-rate, and although certainly it is unfair for partisan purposes to criticize appointments to this tribunal certainly...