Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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World Peaceways was not laughing at old soldiers. That picture was trying to show what more people ought to see-some of the remnants of the last war. There's a hospital for shell-shocked veterans up here that's not a very pretty place to visit. If the movies showed some of those cases instead of parades and medals and glory, people could see what really is war. We think if people in this country knew some of the terrible things that happened in the last war they wouldn't allow another one. We two volunteered...
Delighted, therefore, was Senator Smith last week when Louis Brooks, a member of the New York Cotton Exchange and onetime member of its business conduct committee, uprose at Washington hearings to storm: "The wrong committee is investigating this situation. It ought to be . . . the Department of Justice...
...industry's average-notable because both Bethlehem and U. S. Steel have large stakes in heavy structural steels and rails, have long run far below the industry as a whole. Bethlehem's Grace, who is never given to overstatement, told Senator Wheeler that "business in this quarter ought to be the highest in some time." Said U. S. Steel's Irvin: "The outlook is favorable. We ought to keep going for the next couple of months, at least, as well...
...annual Japanese war scare comes just before our big army and navy appropriation bills are laid before Congress. The munitions racket plunders the public funds; but when you or I call it plundering, we are told that we ought to be deported, sent back to Moscow...
...subject. He further weakens his case for Royalist English by attacking the divine right of dictionaries, even the Oxford (but he bows to H. W. Fowler's Modern English Usage). "Modern dictionaries are pusillanimous works, preferring feebly to record what has been done than to say what ought to be done . . . never conclude that because you find a word in a dictionary it must be a good word. That may be a valuable piece of evidence; but your own taste and opinion must be the judges...