Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While on the subject of the faculty, (and it ought to be worth four Distinc's at least) it was good for a laugh the other day to see Professor "Peanut Wagon" Hanson come in, set his books down, look impatiently at the stragglers, then realize he was in the wrong classroom to rush out red-faced...
Surprisingly Georgia's conservative Senator George, chairman of the Senate's Postwar Committee, substantially agreed. Said he: "What we have tried to do in our agricultural and tax legislation is quite capable of application to the worker. . . . I think we ought to lean toward something like the annual-wage idea...
Checking of results will be done on school children. To provide a control group for Newburgh, the town fathers of Kingston, 32 miles to the north, have promised to forgo fluorine for the ten years. Newburgh and Brantford ought in the end to rate somewhere between Galesburg, Ill. (1.5 parts natural fluorine to a million of water) where school children average two and a half cavities each, and Michigan City, Ind. (0.5 to a million) where children have an average of ten cavities apiece...
Assorted High Allied Military Authorities (talking off the record last winter to newsmen with good ears): "We really ought to be braced to stand several hundred thousand casualties...
...same edition with the Vice President's article was a skilled job of editorial surgery upon it. The Times's editorialist found Mr. Wallace approaching the "very intolerance that he condemns. . . . The Vice President of the U.S. ought not to indulge in merely abusive epithets...