Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...majority opinion declared: "The main issue in this litigation is whether the rates as fixed by the commission's order are confiscatory." At what looked to him less like a decision than a flipflop of indecision, dissenting Justice Pierce Butler spoke a tart word: "Our decisions ought to be sufficiently definite and permanent to enable counsel usefully to advise clients...
...technique, imagination and vision are any good." he told his brother-in-law, Carl Sandburg, in 1929, "I ought to be able to put the best values of my non-commercial . . . photographs into a pair of shoes. ..." By that year he had already set a new standard for commercial photography and was the highest paid cameraman in the U. S. He and his second wife, Dana Desboro, bought a 240-acre farm at Redding, Conn, and developed the most cultured delphiniums in North America...
...next turn at bat Congress, instead of playing Casey, ought to hit a home run that will correct the fallacies of the Administration, reassure business, and help to end the recession. Business and labor, too, should use their heads and not their hearts and give dispassionate thought to the economic problems confronting the United States at the beginning...
Sirs: Tst, tst. Broderick Crawford's shoes in Of Mice and Men (TIME, Dec. 6) have a 4½-in. buildup, not 4 in., as reported. I ought to know-I made them. In street shoes Crawford stands 6 ft. 1½ in., in my shoes (Trademark "Staturaid" patent pending) he's a 6½ footer. Incidentally, this was only the second theatrical order I executed and with that buildup you can't expect inconspicuousness. My regular customers, business and professional people (average sales 200 pairs a month), generally need only 1½ to 2 inches...
...That is immaterial," retorted Lawyer Hogan. "If we have violated the law, we ought to be indicted...