Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...face the question of what kind of work they ought to do. ... Thousands of ponds or small reservoirs have been built. . . . Thousands of wells have been drilled or deepened; community lakes have been created and irrigation projects are being pushed. ... In the Middle West . . . work projects run more to soil-erosion control and the building of farm-to-market roads...
...good, long-winded, lovable man, he started New England discussing problems that were important to it but which were seldom mentioned aloud hysteria in a young girl, misogyny in a young man, morbid religious excitement and its effects, class-distinctions that were unconfessed, scruples of conscience, secrets that ought to be exposed to the light of common sense, "forms of speech and phrases, ugly and distorted, the outward and visible signs of the twisted life within...
...British Dominions statesmen is handsome, dynamic and air-minded Stanley Melbourne Bruce, onetime Premier of Australia and now the High Commissioner in London of the Dominion's Cabinet. At Bristol last week an English audience cheered Mr. Bruce to the echo when he declared that the Dominions ought to pay more than they do now of the terrific bills the Mother Country is running up for armaments. "You can rely," cried Orator Bruce, "that there will be recognition in Australia that they have got to make their contribution...
Swimmer: . . . Now I'm here seeing all these nice paintings of your father and your mother and your ancestors, I quite forget all about the Olympics. Why, Your Royal Highness, you ought to go into the movies. You have an ideal face for pictures...
...take place Scot Campbell Stephen, M. P.. also of the Independent Labor Party, got up to say: "His Majesty's Government's supporters are cowardly robbers and murderers of the working class. The Minister of Labor, Mr. Ernest Brown, is a dirty, contemptible little rat who ought to be hounded from public life. The Home Secretary is a lying scoundrel, and I will not sit down and listen to him. The Minister of Health, Sir Kingsley Wood, is also a contemptible little...