Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the Red Cross began to bank blood, thousands of gallons of red blood corpuscles have been thrown down the drain-only the blood plasma is used. Dr. Warren Cooksey, technical supervisor of Detroit's blood bank, thought there ought to be something these discarded red cells, which constitute 46% of the whole blood, would be good for. Last winter he began supplying Detroit hospitals with batches of specially processed red corpuscles for experimental transfusions (TIME, Feb. 15). Last week Philadelphia Naval Hospital doctors, who had the same idea, reported that red-cell transfusions had proved spectacularly successful...
...Right. Harold Laski would have found Crusader Johnston's lecture to a British Chambers of Commerce luncheon later in the week just as bewildering. Eric Johnston told his hosts: "We ought to put a dead stop to all this palaver . . . about how blood is thicker than water," base U.S.-British relations on the facts about the two nations...
...battle for Sicily has entered its final phase," Under Secretary of War Robert Porter Patterson said last week. "The conquest of that island ought not to be more than a matter of days...
People don't march enough; they ought to march more. This is the warmly held opinion of Warren Dwight Allen, organist and professor of music and education at Stanford University...
...Goddam, I ought to know better," the lieutenant said. "I heard those rockets railroading down on me and I didn't get flat enough. Piece of something hit me in the stomach." He tried to grin...