Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Congratulations on the Man of the Year. Please print some of the howls that come in; they ought to be good. For a man who has not had the advantages of education in diplomatic skulduggery as practised in the majestic precincts of European governments, Haile Selassie has done a fine job of out-diplomating the diplomats...
...Capitol telling Congress all he cared to tell about U. S. finances to the end of fiscal 1937. Last week, while the Senate Finance Committee was considering the Soldiers' Bonus (see above), some of its members, headed by North Carolina's supercilious Josiah William Bailey, decided they ought to hear what Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau would have to say about the effect of paying the Bonus on U. S. finances...
...York Times undertook to rebut the new interpretation of history: "From the beginning to the end of my official life in Washington, I never heard the President or any member of his Cabinet, either in conference or in private conversation, express any opinion that the United States ought to go into the War or that any commercial or financial interest, either of the United States or of any group of our citizens, would be promoted by our going...
...unfortunate consequence of this procedure has been to encourage the very men whose development and education demands the soundest possible preparation for ultimate service to society to shy away from difficult studies which they ought to pursue, in order to take courses in which they feel confident of obtaining high marks...
...this were done, no course requirements for honor candidates after the Sophomore year, in my opinion, ought to be required. The general examination prepared only for honor students should be ideally constituted to set the right standard for the advanced student's work. Examinations in courses designed for mediocre men would not do this so well and would only serve to take the honor student's attention away from learning by his own efforts. In addition, after two years of a full quota of courses, a student is likely to have acquired the "course" attitude, and this can only...