Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peaceful Old George will resign, ambitious Herbert Morrison, the Cockney Labor boss of the London County Council who expects to be the next Labor Prime Minister, rushed about last week rousing his constituents with the platform cry: "Mussolini is an irresponsible fanatic with bloodthirsty tendencies. The people of Italy ought to overthrow...
...This editorial has brought me to a decision which I have been resisting for two years or more: that is, to withdraw from the Methodist Church. . . . I happen to be an officer of a public utility holding company and consequently I am an 'untouchable' and probably ought not raise my voice in protest, but I have been doing it and I am going to do so increasingly. . . . The Methodist Church . . . has meant much to me. . . . However, I can no longer continue to support in my small way, either financially or spiritually, a course with which I so thoroughly...
...went back, but John was too ill with tuberculosis to work in the mine he loved. When Ellen saw the huge crowds that tramped miles to his funeral, she suddenly realized that her plain, impractical husband had been a great man, reflected with anguish, pride and bewilderment that husbands ought to explain things to their wives...
Toward the end of January the University announced that Hemenway Gymnasium was out of the question since the demands of the commuters were not sufficient to warrant their occupying the whole space. Brooks House maintained, however, that the University ought to establish a center if the commuters who use it are willing to pay the maintenance charges...
...less than 19 Republicans filed as candidates for Mayor. Of these, eleven remained on the ballot for next week's primary. Compromise was impossible because none of the three leading candidates would give an inch for party unity. Sheriff Richard Weglein, for 25 years boss of "Brewerytown," thought he ought to be Mayor because he is "the only real Republican of the lot." The Penrose faction of the Republican machine threw its support to City Treasurer WillB Hadley for Mayor. Also definitely in the Republican race was a newcomer named Samuel Davis Wilson...