Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suppose," he said, "this ought to be an occasion of some solemnity, but I can't feel it so. No one so far has paid any attention to Judge Davis, who is lamentably lame in one regard." He turned to the fourth ancient, Judge J. Warren Davis, 71, not retiring. "I refer to his robe, which for years has been the despair and humiliation of every one connected with this Court. It is a sad commentary on the administration of justice, and the concern over it has reached way down to his native State of North Carolina. Before...
...primary source of evil in the present setup of the Olympics is that the games are too large. It is not that too many nations participate, for the brotherhood of sports ought to include every country in the world. The trouble is that there are too many events, more than 150 of them at the Berlin Games, including many like women's sports that have no real justification for inclusion and many like architecture which Germany brought in at the last minute to win points. Many events mean many participants, and in the large countries the organization of the tams...
...good elementary course, under the able leadership of Professor Hisaw, who lectures excellently in the second half year on zoology. Darrah was a new man last year on botany in the first half year, is still a little cautions but rapidly improving and helpful to the individual. He soon ought to put botany on the high plane Hisaw has reached in zoology. This course is recommended for non-concentrators as well...
Your invitation in TIME'S flyspeck-nailing department for the brethren to send in their definitions of the word "liberal" and appraisals of its application to Franklin ("The Heart") Roosevelt [TIME, May 9 et seq] ought to bring down on you more echoing bathos than has been heard since the last Fireside Chat...
...Hopkins, for whom I have always had a high regard, is supposedly carrying out a Governmental relief program on a non-partisan and non-political basis. Yet his statement says in effect to the relief workers in Iowa: 'You people ought to vote for Mr. Wearin and vote against Senator Gillette...