Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Police Commissioner: "There is no labor dispute involved, and in this country, where freedom of religion is guaranteed, theological differences or even philosophical controversies are not contemplated in the law permitting picketing. . . . There is nothing in the Norris-La-Guardia Act which permits the picketing of God. I ought to know...
...government ought to be helping industry to its feet ... it even almost ought to err in that direction." So said red-haired Attorney General Frank Murphy last week. Since he tends strictly to his legal knitting and engages in none of the New Deal's economic fancywork, his sentiments were merely sentiments. But the same day two other members of the Administration went to the help of Business with good advice about the war boom...
...congratulate you on your stand against the utterances of distinguished gentleman who ought to know better. Stay with it. If you need ammunition, turn to the four articles written for the Saturday Evening Post by Frank Simonds just before he died. American undergraduates are fortunate in having one undergraduate newspaper that sees clearly, and I hope your example will be followed by every other undergraduate paper in the country . . . Kenneth Roberts...
...proletariat's size was reduced by machinery, its miseries by reform. Seeing all this, Lenin did not deduce that Marx had been wrong. Instead he formed the Communist Party to lead the working class, not to what it seemed to want but to what Marx had decided it ought to want. And to win the Russian Revolution, Lenin had to diverge from Marxism again by giving property-land-to the peasants...
...worried by the fact that Harvard's grid schedule this year includes three snap games. "Two snaps ought to be enough in an average year," he says, "but what's the use of our going in for suicide schedules? If Harvard went in for hiring professionals, they wouldn't have to fool around with set-up opening games...