Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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China into Council- Ever since the permanent seat on the League Council created for Japan was vacated when that country withdrew from the League (TIME, March 6, 1933), China has been loudly expostulating that no Asiatic country had a place on the Council and that, at the least, China ought to be given one of the rotative, nonpermanent seats which are good for three years. Last week the Assembly elected Latvia and China each to a nonpermanent seat on the Council...
...have no quarrel with the H.A.A. policy and believe that the players ought to get more of a break than they do, but why the devil deny that athletics, especially football, have gone "big time" or at least attempted to at Harvard? Your truly, H. M. Fuller...
...letters soon like the above. But don't let it concern you I imagine the vast majority of your readers will get the mighty "belly laugh" I experienced over said article. I immediately went up to town and bought me a copy of Esquire You ought to charge that magazine for that hot-shot advertisement. I'll be flying down to Rio soon...
...that he is a prisoner. While he is serving 30 days in the guardhouse, one of his roommates, whose notions of duty prevent him from reporting a cold to the infirmary, dies of pneumonia. In Thornton's hearing the conscientious medical officer tells the commandant that the school ought to be prosecuted. The commandant hints that if Thornton ignores this incident, he will be made a sergeant next year...
...quite so commendable, however, are the additions made in the process of translation. A great quantity of extraneous beings: gnomes, bat-like men out of the funny papers, rubber-skinned monsters, all thrust in their grimacing faces and do their bits. One feels that they ought either to be Shakespearean or original, and it is just a little jarring to see the rubber men do a kind of Apache dance with the faerles, and then disappear in a manner so unnatural even for a fantasy that the brainless noisemaker behind us was led to comment, "I know...