Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Declared he: "Now we have come to a point where further stimulating activities of prosecution under any law will get us into difficulties. . . . We have been overtaxing our Federal machinery [by laws enacted] in the last 19 years. It makes me feel we ought to get our house in order and increase our facilities for handling the criminal business we already have before we start passing any more Federal statutes that make things Federal crimes that are not at present. . . . We have been forced to be exceedingly liberal with our paroles because if we had not been we would have...
...days and which, with tiny hulls, carried far more sail than modern racers and were useless for any purpose except racing. The change has come about because Sir Thomas, and the syndicates building U. S. boats to defend the Cup, have agreed that they ought to use only a "sensible type of yacht." The Shamrock V will compete in English regattas in May and will sail across the Atlantic with 20 men aboard, for the Cup races in September. Her skipper will be Ernest Heard, mate on the Shamrock...
...anybody in Poland understands her quixotic Dictator, that somebody ought to be made Prime Minister, and last week Poles were hopeful that, with Jan at the head of the Cabinet table, Josef (who insists on playing that he is only War Minister) will not snort and swear so much, will vent less often his favorite expletive: "Parliament! A prostitute, gentlemen! Parliament is a prostitute!" (TIME, July...
...headmaster of Taft School, in a speech before the annual meeting and smoker of Hotchkiss School in New York yesterday. Aiming his attack at secondary schools in particular, Mr. Taft declared that a great many students are admitted to the Universities of the West with certificates from schools "that ought to be closed by law." Parental interference, school boards, and money stringencies all play their part to block the path of progress. The whims of individual educators are unavailing without a solid foundation of education in the old style; Latin, Greek, and Mathematics...
...credo of 14 points. Excerpts: "We believe in the Volstead Act which limits alcoholic content to one half of one percent. No other standard would be safe for children"; "we believe the buyer is equally guilty with the seller in illicit transactions in liquor"* "we believe that the press . . . ought to give fair representation of the views of law-abiding citizens rather than continue attacks on the law" "we believe there is no authority for submitting the Constitution, in whole or in part, to a national referendum...