Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Housing Authority's Langdon Post maintaining that the per-room limit should not be less than $1,750. Senators owning homes in Washington figured that that was more than their own houses had cost; a comfortable 10-room, brick & stone dwelling even in Washington, they thought, ought not to cost much over...
...Bilbao. There are not more than 5,000 exhausted Basque militiamen to guard it, and though Valencia has been able to sneak a few planes through to Santander in recent weeks, a service it could not perform for Bilbao, the overwhelmingly superior Rightist forces on the Basque front ought to be able to capture Santander in less than a week, any time the order is issued. Thousands of Italians are on that front, and Italy would dearly love to make a grandiloquent state entry into Santander and then, if possible, in the opposite corner of Spain, where other Italian thousands...
...Progressive Education Association to test Secrets of Success next fall in a number of selected classrooms. Last week Experimenters May and De Bra were both on hand at 1600 Broadway, both confident that their reviewers have uncovered further unsuspected educational wealth. How schools and producers ought to divide the expense of editing and remaking the films for school projectors and setting up a national distributing agency, and what rentals should be charged, the present exploratory committee was not prepared...
...time it looked as if broadcasters might make their peace. What they could not agree to, however, was the provision touching transmission of music to stations that do not employ musicians. It seemed to the radio people that they ought to be permitted to broadcast wherever and to whomever they pleased, that it was the musicians' job to get small stations to hire more men. Joseph Weber, knowing full well that they were attacking his most crucial demand, stood up bravely, sent many a radio representative home to sleepless nights. Because musicians are as tightly organized as any labor...
...moment, however, was to manage his escape. But De Queslain, who still thought she was trying to put something over on him, argued so long that the Albanians had already arrived and begun their slaughter and rape before he could be convinced. Lena's next move ought to have opened his eyes to how much she cared. She cut her cheek, ripped her clothes half off, instructed him to drag her through the streets to avoid suspicion that he was not one of the pillagers. He did his best to follow instructions, got cut off every time only because...