Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wages and Hours. "A few more dollars a week in wages, a better distribution of jobs with a shorter working day will almost overnight make millions of our lowest-paid workers actual buyers of billions of dollars of industrial and farm products. That increased volume of sales ought to lessen other costs of production so much that even a considerable increase in labor costs can be absorbed without imposing higher prices on the consumer...
...Green players how good they are, ask the flashy backs or the heavy linemen. Perhaps they would answer, "We wouldn't know," but they might more likely reply "We ought to be good...
...that Shantung's Han recently conferred in Tsinan with Japanese Lieut.-General Kenji Doihara, Tokyo's ablest bribe artist in dealing with Chinese, were taken seriously enough at Nanking, China's capital, for a government spokesman to angrily exclaim last week: "If Doihara came there he ought to have been locked up in jail...
...this point the man who does things when "something ought to be done about it" walks in after a bracing workout in a steam cabinet, gets the idea, and immediately seats himself down to write a letter to the athletic director, one of those chatty epistles which want to know fundamentally, "What the hell?" and with the writer's glass (for some strange reason it's almost always '08) displayed prominently...
...nation's high schools reported they gave coordinated sex instruction; eight years later only 10% did so. The commission, ten years after, convinced that the missing information had not yet been supplied, declared: ". . . If. as is held in some quarters, high-school youngsters are learning all they ought to know about sex in their biology and hygiene courses, their questions certainly do not show...