Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tell you, Alf Landon, if you succeed me at the White House you ought to get a boat and try out the Potomac River for fishing. I have taken week-end trips and they have done me a lot of good...
...William P. Montague took his place, gave ground a little when he admitted that newsreels perhaps tended to be superficial (see below) but blamed the public's insistence on being entertained at all costs. "To get a camera and go to work" was exactly what critics of Hollywood ought to do, said Ohio State University's scholarly Dr. Edgar Dale. He also recommended a Consumers' Research organization to evaluate Hollywood's productions. Meantime the action of three progressive schools near Philadelphia (Friend's Central, Oak Lane Country Day, Cheltenham Township High School) showed that...
...Well, one reason, though it's not the real one, and I think the real one ought to be perfectly obvious, is that at Harvard there has to be a distinction made between the men who do live in the Yard and those who don't. Why the future alumni known as upperclassmen are divided into three groups is something I don't know. That's clear, isn't it?" The Vagabond smiled at his neighbor...
...flagship carries six captains and one rear admiral but the officers are a nice bunch. China is a pretty nice place. I ought to have a good many smackers saved by the time I get back. How is the crop...
...need to be afraid that I will sue you for whatever I could sue you. My reputation wasn't so much to begin with, anyhow. But you ought to have a conscience about what you have done to a whole generation of us, if you don't take it back...