Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Roosevelt at Hyde Park for approval. The President approved for Bonneville only, but the idea seemed to be that if it worked at Bonneville the formula would be applied permanently to TVA, Boulder and Grand Coulee Dams and the "little TVAs" of the future. Said Mr. Ross: "We ought to be businesslike about this thing and pay Uncle Sam back the money he puts...
...think I ought to say something here about the fundamentals underlying the union movement. . . . Men will band together on the basis of craft, and with some sense, the idea being hundreds of years old. To hold that machine operators cannot be organized on the same basis is due to ignorance of the job itself. From the standpoint of organizing it is expedient and lucrative, but to say that a toolmaker or first-class grinder should concern himself with the plight of his union brother who is pushing a truck is taking a pretty general viewpoint. This...
...despite the efforts of the operating force to improve the efficiency of the book-getting mechanism, there are a few major changes in routine that ought to be effected before the Library can look for great strides. First is the rule by which members of the University are allowed to charge books for a month at a time. Of large Universities Harvard stands practically alone in letting books go out for such a long period, the usual length being two week and one week time limits. When a book is charged out for a month at a time, the student...
...Quinn carried out the best traditions of our School in the admirable public statement that he made when he was Lieutenant Governor, as to the reforms that ought to be carried out by the proposed constitutional convention to bring up-to-date the antiquated features of the fundamental law of the State...
...Jacques Deval), made in France, is a naive, sometimes sad, sometimes merry, typically Gallic approach to a theme similar to that of Maedchen in Uniform, Eight Girls in a Boat and other film treatments of repressed girlhood. Manhattan censors promptly spotted Sapphic overtones and more frankness than young girls ought,to show, ordered several cuts. Its U. S. sponsors, Arthur Mayer and Joseph Burstyn, gloomily anticipated even severer censorship in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kansas...