Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...India area was the most confused of all Allied war commands. A U.S. colonel once despairingly explained that the multinational, multiservice commands could not be illustrated on an ordinary service chart, but needed "a three-dimensional organization chart with a wire framework and five shades of colored ribbon, which ought to indicate at least the simpler relationships...
...point of speculation upon the nature of man and the universe. Wherever Hellenism has penetrated, we find the idea of it familiar. . . . The Occident, however, has lost it, and no longer even has a word to express it in any of its languages: conceptions of limit, measure, equilibrium, which ought to determine the conduct of life are, in the West, restricted to a servile function in the vocabulary of technics. We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in their apprenticeship to virtue...
However, Buell S. Smith '49, Chairman of the Dance Committee, expressed his confidence in a big response and a flowing till. "Institutions like Harvard and Radcliffe ought to be able to support two social affairs the same night," he said "and besides, there's always Wellesley...
Somebody just murmured that we ought to bury the game, pretend it didn't really happen, but it's worth a few more paragraphs...
...anyone in the Soviet Union feels-as Moscow declares-that Westerners ought to know Russia better, the Soviet Union has only itself to blame. So far Westerners have made all the efforts...