Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Drawbacks? If there was an argument to be made against Sir William's case, it had little to do with the screams of the special interests whose toes were stepped on and nothing at all to do with the better distribution of wealth, which ought to improve Britain's economic strength. The most fundamental opposition arguments...
...regard to the speech of Lieut. General Lesley J. McNair . . . every Christian man and woman in our country ought to recognize that a man who holds such bloodthirsty and unchristian ideas is not morally fit to be a leader of American soldiers. We ought all, as I have, write to President Roosevelt requesting his immediate removal...
...hour; hence important points are overloked. Professor Malcolm P. McNair, who has been closely connected with the development of the system, pointed out another weakness, when he suggested that "not enough attention is paid to the pedagogical standpoint. A good case should be like a detective story. Clues ought to be there, but not obvious enough to give the answer away. A certain amount of dramatization is needed, and this requires all the niceties of composition." He further indicated that the present tendency is to place too much emphasis on criticism of business action. The professors like this, because...
...dozen varieties. At least four-neoprene, butyl, Koroseal and Thiokol-are wholly American products. Each of the synthetics is superior to natural rubber in at least one respect and for at least one use. Yet none claims to be perfect. Each will improve with further research, and ought to supersede natural rubber in its special field. Rubber itself may never regain its pre-war place, may join natural dyes, lacquers, resins, and perhaps silk in limbo...
...have intervened, provoke constant comparisons with the U.S. part in World War II. The net effect is fairly encouraging: the book leaves the impression that Americans fight hard, if not always with utmost efficiency. But after the discussion of the Meuse-Argonne, there is a pithy little passage which ought to make readers want to see a certain difference in the finally decisive battles of 1942-43: "I do not intend here," Fuller writes, "as I have done in former chapters, to conclude the story of this war with a summary of the peace treaty which sealed...