Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There were three stars plainly visible on the photograph which we sent to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, but I understand they rumpled the general's coat . . . and thus hid one of the stars." Said the wearied Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing: "If there ought to be another star it is around on the back of the collar. You might try looking on the back of the stamp...
What His Majesty's Government ought to do, declared shrewd Melchett, is not to stage the present British public works boom jointly with the rearmament boom, but to hold back on everything that can possibly be held back and then, as the rearmament boom subsides, start up the rest by pulling out and using, one by one, a series of Depression-averting plans which should be prepared today amid Britain's relative Prosperity...
...clubs and blackjacks with which they had armed themselves, the great iron bins lined three deep inside plant gates, filled with such missiles as bolts, pipe joints, grenade-sized automobile parts. "Troops might get through here," a striker confided to Scripps-Howard's Raymond Clapper, "but you ought to see what we've got inside. We have much more material than this piled around each stairway." "It would be folly," roared the New York Herald Tribune, "to call the sit-in strike of Detroit by any but its right name. That name is insurrection...
...count 'em, one.) It is true, that the present cues are in various states of degeneration, but there is a movement on foot to replace these with new ones, and when the time comes for the members of the Class of '40 to descend upon the Houses, this department ought to be in ship shape...
...services to the House; but no undergraduate position of such weight and value as the P.B.H. posts can be sinecures even for fagged veteran volunteers. The three men elected to the management of P.B.H. should be charged with duties equal to the size and volume of their post; they ought to control the policies of the only organization in Harvard which deals with outside interests more than nominally...