Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After four months big, footloose Paul Gallico again resigned from the News, went back to England on savings from magazine writing, after having met Mr. Hearst. In Publisher Hearst he saw "the last of the great kings" for whom "every newspaper man ought to work at least once if his career is to be complete...
...Empire State Building, New York City's Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia discussed with Empire State's President Alfred E. Smith alterations currently under way in his City Hall executive offices. Said Landlord Smith: "City Hall looks like it needs to be sent to the laundry. You ought to sandblast it." Tenant LaGuardia: "That would be like polishing the dust off a bottle of old wine...
...Deal. The high tide of reaction was reached in 1935, when the most charitable liberal observation was the New Republic's: that that year's convention was a "perfect example of Bourbonism in full flower." Even the New York Times remarked caustically that "spokesmen for business organizations ought not to sound like the Chairman of the Republican National Committee...
...from its right hand what its left hand is doing. Over and over in History, Government, and Economics is taught the importance of the labor problem and the unsatisfactoriness of the present armed truce between labor and capital in this country. It is good that professors debate what wages ought to be paid and how labor ought to be handled; but more effective than the words is the fact, more valuable than the preaching is the practice. In research, in education, and in diffusion of culture, Harvard tries to be the leader, and never satisfied with the present, strives...
...present. For example, Harvard should have been one of the first to work out an Old Age Pension Plan instead of being one of the corporations that yielded when the whole country was talking about the inevitability of the scheme. An active, positive attitude towards finding how labor ought to be treated is called for, and not a policy of waiting until the country creeps ahead and then catching up in a public fluster...