Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME unusually well-read and well-informed ought to answer a question that bothers my humble mind void of any legal enlightenment...
...Japan merely put into high relief the utter unreality of General Hagood's offense. He was not conducting an agitation. He was not forcing his opinions on Congress. On the contrary, he was speaking in private and by invitation to the very civil authorities from whom an officer ought to conceal none of his opinions...
Declared Verner W. Main, a Michigan Republican elected to the House last year with the aid of local Townsendites (TIME, Dec. 30) : "I am in favor of the investigation but I don't think we ought to spend $25,000 or $50,000 cutting down a beanstalk to see why Jack doesn't fall. . . . You are attempting to do that which Canute of old failed to do, when he made his futile gesture of commanding the ocean to recede...
...illustrate what a crew ought not to do as well as what they should do, moving pictures taken from the cox's seat will be shown and commented on. After the meeting tonight all men who are interested will be put in charge of experienced coxes and given instructions twice a week until the river opens. Those who will speak are: Head Coach Whiteside, Freshman Coach Bert Haines, Edward H. Bennett Jr. '37 of the 1935 Varsity, Edward T. White '38, of last year's Freshman, and Edward T. Barker '37, of the Varsity 150-pounders...
...listen: I have saved the sweetest part of my letter to the last. Your ears ought to burn today! One of my countrymen, Professor Pease, speaks about you this afternoon. Are you not glad? Will it not please you, dear Cicero, to hear about yourself: Your letters; your philosophy; your orations--even your private life? Fear not, in this latter matter the professor will be discreet. But how is Publilia? I shall be waiting to meet...