Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...veiled retort by President Hoover or his subordinates to senatorial criticism of the uncertain Hoover handling of Prohibition enforcement. They vowed they would not be intimidated by fear of exposure as Dry drinkers. Exclaimed Washington's Dry Senator Jones, author of the Five & Ten Law: "Certainly we ought to know where they [the 'loggers] were going in the office building." Senate Leader Watson spoke about "not guarding the morals of my fellow Senators." Iowa's Senator Brookhart, arch-tattler, shouted his determination of learning the S. O. B. customers of Cassidy and Goldberg...
...foot pools to 51 5-10 seconds . . . George Kojac of Rutgers did almost as good in a 75 foot pool several days before that . . . These two meet in the new Harvard pool in the N. C. S. A., meet next month and the winner of their race ought to break the record. . . . Jonas ingraham, brother of "Navy Bill" Ingraham, and athletic director at Annapolis has resigned . . . Since he was the central figure in the Army-Navy break rumors along newspaper, row have it that the two service academies will patch up their difficulties and play football again. . . . Albie Booth will...
...believe that they had good reason to vote as they did. We submit that we were prepared to discuss a vital Massachusetts problem. Boston College succeeded in talking about national prohibition, which is something quite different. Boston College deserved to win the debate. We feel that their debaters ought to have analyzed the proposition more in view of the way in which Massachusetts would be served if the act were repealed. The Boston College speakers elected not to do that, which was quite within their rights. But even though we failed to force them into a discussion of the proposition...
...people in the U. S." The Senator also found that Mr. Hughes's plea that General Electric Co. had a vested right in perpetuity in a broadcasting wave length temporarily assigned it, was "a shocking proposition." Mr. Hughes's views, contended the Senator, "are not views that ought to be incorporated in our legal and economic system...
...British Broadcasting Company,'' said the B. B. C.'s Director-General, Sir John Reith, recently, "has never attempted to give the public what it wants. It gives the public what it ought to have." What the public "ought to have" on Tuesday, Feb. 4 included: How the Welfare Centres Can Help You, by Dr. Stella Churchill; Leonardo Kemp and his Piccadilly Hotel Orchestra; Modern Poetry, by Victoria Sackville-West; Child Impersonations, by Harry Hemsley; Oxford in the Seventies, by Mrs. Margaret L. Woods; Scientific Research and Clothes, by Professor Leonard Hill...